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It's pointless to provide examples, because Google will quickly "recall" anything that is being searched by multiple different people. Unfortunately, it is no
by altfredd 8y ago
It's pointless to provide examples, because Google will quickly "recall" anything that is being searched by multiple different people.
Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to use Google Search for searching in Internet. You are only allowed to look up viral memes and query neural networks, trained by other people's searches. Searching for rare and unique things will quickly get you banned. An interesting side-effect: using modern Google to check if name is vacant is meaningless. I used to google for names to see, if something else used them, but Google's search repeatedly returned me 0 results, even when there were multiple pages with that particular name in title, many of them years old. Searching for the same thing couple of weeks later have suddenly returned hundreds of hits.
I wonder, how much it costs to actually query Google's database instead of some distant neural network approximation. Apparently, Google's own employees can't afford it anymore — some of them are using DuckDuckGo instead (they even added it to Chrome, lol)
- gipp 8y agoI... What? This is so disconnected from any experience I've ever had searching anything I don't even know how to approach it. What on Earth do viral memes have to do with anything? What does "banned" even mean in this context? There's no such thing as a ban from Google search. And if I were to hazard a guess I think you dramatically overestimate the role of neural networks in search in general.
- reaperducer 8y agoThis is so disconnected from any experience I've ever had searching anything I don't even know how to approach it. Then consider yourself lucky. The post was a little rambling, but it wasn't wrong.
- SCHiM 8y ago"banned" in this context probably means that idiotic popup about "unusual traffic detected from your machine" and if i would "pretty please run some anti-virus scanning software please". This happens often when creating complex search terms with 'inurl' and 'intext' operators. This happens to me at least once a month.
- shawnz 8y agoJust curious, do you live in a western country? Do you have a Google account? I use funny queries like that often but I've seen that message maybe only once or twice before. There must be some additional factors involved.
- SCHiM 8y agoWestern country while logged in on my google account. I've given it some thought myself, I have that account logged in from a variety of systems: linux boxes and windows boxes some behind a vpn, some not. I suppose it sometimes looks like my account is used for botting, but then again: why wouldn't I be allowed to connect my bot to their results, given that google uses bots to index the content in the first place? Despite the fact that I could probably adjust to better fit their 'nothing weird going on here' preconceptions, I think I'd rather complain and hope that over time it's google that will change.
- londons_explore 8y agoClearing cookies and use of a shared VPN server are the main culprits for this error. If neighbouring IP's to yours abuse Google services, you'll see way more of these errors.
- eitland 8y ago> What does "banned" even mean in this context? There's no such thing as a ban from Google search. You get warnings and captchas.
- nullc 8y ago> You get warnings and captchas. Frequently they are unsolvable captchas that just waste your time. :(