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Mr. Anderson
08-21-2009, 05:58 PM
Things like this

We're sorry...
... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.

make it impossible to search Phoronix efficiently. (No, I am not a computer virus)

RealNC
08-21-2009, 06:33 PM
Can you provide an example? It seems to work just fine here. For example searching for "site:phoronix.com Catalyst 9.8".

Mr. Anderson
08-21-2009, 06:47 PM
Sorry, forgot that in the first post. An example is:

allintext:"Luc Verhagen" novell

RealNC
08-21-2009, 06:54 PM
I wonder how one can inform Google about this bug.

Ex-Cyber
08-22-2009, 04:00 AM
Probably some heuristics run amok. There's a contact form for problems here (http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=86640), although it seems to suggest an IP ban rather than per-query filtering.