Google goes more and more stupid each day?

[El Heggunte]

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Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network.
This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot.

Has this already happened to everyone, or "it's just me" ?

[stiltman]

Yes, google is now checking to see if your computer is infected
Looks like yours might be

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=86640

[SLK001]

I don't know if it is actually checking for infections. Instead, it is detecting patterns of searching that suggest a bot. I had this happen to me when I was trying to narrow the parameters of a search inquiry - five or more times in less than 2 minutes.

And I know that I am "virus" free.

[stiltman]

And I know that I am "virus" free.

Are you 100% sure, really??

[El Heggunte]

I don't know if it is actually checking for infections. Instead, it is detecting patterns of searching that suggest a bot. I had this happen to me when I was trying to narrow the parameters of a search inquiry - five or more times in less than 2 minutes.

Probably your answer is the "rightest" one. Actually, Google does NOT know what is *relevant for me* And since last week or so, I've been "encouraged" to refine my queries with the "allintext:" option

And I know that I am "virus" free.

Are you 100% sure, really??

You mean SLK001 is a virus, alright

[SLK001]

And I know that I am "virus" free.

Are you 100% sure, really??

I'm 95% sure that I am 100% virus free!

[lordsmurf]

There's no such thing as a virus anymore.
It's all various forms of malware: trojan, worm, bootkit, rootkit, etc. Not a virus in sight.

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus

The last time I saw a real virus was in the late 1990s, in the era of the Office macro virus.
Or email forwards with attached EXE files.