On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Derek Andrew <derek.and...@usask.ca> wrote: > As others have said, Google's abuse systems are smart enough to understand > NAT and proxies, and won't block on request volume alone. When we > automatically apply a block, we'll generally offer a captcha to give > innocent users a workaround and limit the annoyance until the abuse stops > and the block can expire > > This failed at our site. Our entire IPv4 and IPv6 addresse blocks received > captcha after captcha after captcha, forever and ever. > > There was a link on the page to get more information, but all that got was > another captcha. > > Normally I am 100% behind Google in everything, but sadly, this has now > fallen to 99.8%.
I've triggered Google's CAPTCHA multiple times at home, just from rapidly adding and removing search terms, in a couple of different tabs, after driving down a hundred results or so. It's been a few months, but this used to happen to me pretty regularly if I had drive deep to find something. Royce
