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From my experience at blekko, 99.9% of the "people" who go deep into the results pages for a single query are actually bots. You're a very unusual user, and the
by greglindahl 8y ago
From my experience at blekko, 99.9% of the "people" who go deep into the results pages for a single query are actually bots. You're a very unusual user, and there are a lot of bots.
- danmg 8y agoI run up against this all the time. My browser is fast from blocking all third party trackers and scripts. My searches are faster, so it thinks they're automated.
- xenomachina 8y agoThere's a difference between going deep into the results, and progressively refining a query. The former is pretty indicative of bot behavior -- humans rarely go past even the first page of results. I do the latter all the time, and this frequently gets me Google's captcha, especially if I'm doing something like using site: and inurl: operators.
- reitanqild 8y agoI've managed to trigger Google's bot detector too while trying to find documentation for a certain bank api (legitimate reasons, we were supoosed to integrate and their docs didn't make sense).