[LegendHasIt]

Anyone else seen this? I wonder if google was hacked, or if it is just a preview of their soon to come deeper personal identity mining requirements.

Or perhaps Skynet has indeed become self aware.

[sockmonkey]

I got one of those on google the other day. The message said unusual traffic detected on my network, then the little type in the wavy letters box.

[tpmintx]

I do not use Google directly. I use Google indirectly thru startpage.com

Startpage.com enters Google searches thru their own proxy or some such. They isolate you from SkyNet. Give it a try.

[the anti-liberal]

"unusual search patterns"

What does this even mean?

[I see my hands]

Google, social media, stupid cloud, pic/video hosting, forums, smart phones, GPS devices, every keystroke, every word = our tickets to the ovens. Time to pull the plug, no kidding.

[NoLibZone]

Google= the DNC

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT to reboot...

This stinks..

[Jonty30]

Google is paid to ensure some websites end up at the top of a search.

Somebody has probably figured out how to use a bot to put their particular website on top.

By using that filter, they are ensuring whomever is doing the searching is actually human.

[Kommodor]

Also, if you haven’t already, switch to Firefox and get the “no-script” add on. You might also like one called (I think) don’t track me, and ad-blocker. These will greatly reduce the odds of having issues in the future.

[HenryArmitage]

This is new. Google determined that a few Malware programs were hijacking browsers to up the traffic to client sites. So they took some of the most commonly used key words and tied them to a ‘check if human’ protocol. Not the most elegant way to handle bots, but effective. In my opinion they should have detected quantity and not the qualities of the searches, If you are sending a search request every half second, you are not human.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

They probably detected you are a Conservative which is against their lib policy.

[djf]

I got totally fed up with all the Java BS and cookies yada yada yada at Google.
Switched to Yahoo search, much cleaner. If they start pulling stunts like Google, I will dump them and find another one.

[vanilla swirl]

I use Ubuntu Linux, Firefox with add-ons and ixquick for anonymous searches.

But nothing is foolproof;
How a father found out his daughter was pregnant;
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

[Fresh Wind]

I have used Google Patents (since when it was a “beta” feature) to search for very old patent information. Sometimes you have to examine many patents to find what you want, because their search based on OCR processing of scanned patent images from the USPTO, and that doesn’t work reliably on very old patents. In extreme cases, you might have to look at dozens or maybe hundreds of patents.

I have had exactly the same problem as what you have described, including the “unusual search patterns” message and the “Captcha” entry roadblock (which I could never get past no matter how many times I tried.

But this wasn’t recent-this was several years ago. I haven’t had the problem recently, though.

I’m more inclined to think this is a software glitch rather than anything sinister, an attempt to block “bots”.

But with Google, you’re never sure.

[R. Scott]

I haven’t see that. I just did a Google search to check it out.

[R. Scott]

I haven’t see that. I just did a Google search to check it out.

[duckman]

“(I do all my searches for things that 0bama & co wouldn’t like with other search engines anyway).”

WH/DNC pressure on google?

[trebb]

Sounds like a phishing attack - someone trying to get your info to use for themselves.

[blindsangamon]

It is for this reason that I NEVER use Google’s search engine. I use Ixquick.com or Scroogle.com, which perform anonymous searches through their proxies.

[FourPeas]

Another alternate search engine:
http://www.duckduckgo.com