Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

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Doing a search for information about a restaurant in Crete and Google is blocking it with a CAPTCHA test and the following warning:

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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. Why did this happen?


This page appears when Google automatically detects requests coming from your computer network which appear to be in violation of the Terms of Service. The block will expire shortly after those requests stop. In the meantime, solving the above CAPTCHA will let you continue to use our services.

This traffic may have been sent by malicious software, a browser plug-in, or a script that sends automated requests. If you share your network connection, ask your administrator for help — a different computer using the same IP address may be responsible. Learn more

Sometimes you may be asked to solve the CAPTCHA if you are using advanced terms that robots are known to use, or sending requests very quickly.
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Never seen this before, but tried the search a couple of times and the same thing happens. Is it really that suspicious to search for the name of a Greek restaurant?
 
For peace of mind I ran some malware and virus checks and they came out clean.

Google didn't have a problem with any other word searches and removed the block after doing the CAPTCHA. Turns out the restaurant is closed anyway :rolleyes:
 
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