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Anecdata, but I can confirm a uniform and long-standing experience that adding colon-based operators to a search query results in a CAPTCHA challenge every sing
by Hard_Space 3y ago
Anecdata, but I can confirm a uniform and long-standing experience that adding colon-based operators to a search query results in a CAPTCHA challenge every single time on a subsequent search, even if the subsequent search is 'vanilla' (i.e., no operators). Has been like this more years now than I can remember. Apparently this kind of 'advanced' usage is indication of bot activity.
- raverbashing 3y agoSo now anyone displaying slightly more intelligence than an eggplant while doing a search in Google is a "bot"? Appalling
- freedomben 3y agowelcome to the machine learning future, where anything you do that is a statistical outlier gets you algorithmed by a machine that is incapable of reason but knows when you're different. As a person who has been a statistical outlier most of my life, I am dreading this. It's bad enough dealing with human impressions and mis-judgment, but now we get it from our computers now, which used to be logical, deterministic havens.
- pixl97 3y ago>As a person who has been a statistical outlier most of my life Anomaly detected. Termination authorized.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoAll humans must be reduced to sameness so machine successors can flourish.
- brazzledazzle 3y agoFor what it’s worth this never, ever happens to me. These days I only get captcha’d when someone’s laptop on the same network gets owned and is being used to hit google.
- 29083011397778 3y agoAppalling what that says about Google, or what that says about the average search user?
- Atlas22 3y agoC) All of the above
- chefandy 3y agoHmm... VPN, big proxy, or some other contributing factor? I use site: all the time, not on chrome, and without being logged in... If I've ever gotten captchas doing so, it wasn't frequently enough to see a pattern. Maybe some property of the site makes a difference that puts your usage and my usage on either side of that fence?
- Hard_Space 3y ago> VPN, big proxy, or some other contributing factor? My big crime is that I live in Romania, I think.
- chefandy 3y ago:: Google shaking its fist in the air :: Damn Romanians!
- Hard_Space 3y ago> Damn Romanians! Not even Romanian! (Brit transplant)
- chefandy 3y agoEverybody adopts the nationality of their IP address in internet land!
- foobazgt 3y agoI have never had this experience once in... decades? I use operators such as site: frequently. I suggest there's some other property of your environment that's setting captcha off - vpn, shared sketchy ip/network, etc. Bad actors suck.
- buggyipadmettoo 3y agoSame. Use it everyday for majority of my G searches, never once seen a captcha (except when using VPN). OP, are you logged in to google? I am. Wonder if that’s the difference?