If you ask Google (via the URL provided) they will eventually get back to you with a time range when they saw the traffic that they detected as "unusual"/automated.<br><br>Getting back on topic a little, the below blog URL was returning the error here but is now working fine so I suspect they have fixed the problem for some users at least.<br>
<br> Scott.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Chris Burwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cburwell@gmail.com">cburwell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We have received that message when performing Google searches before. A quick way to make it go away is to change the NAT/PAT address you use for your workstations.<br>
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I would be interested in seeing what others find has caused this. The few time it happened at work, I could not find any root cause.<br>
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That blog displays fine here (AS 7024)<br>
<br>
They may be blocking depending upon where they are getting attacked from.<br>
Since we aren't a huge consumer network we may not have any bots hitting<br>
them.<br>
<br>
-bill<br>
<br>
Pixelgate Networks<br>
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dl wrote:<br>
> Actually, I'm seeing the same thing. What's strange, is I'm not even<br>
> hitting google-related sites (as far as I can tell, perhaps they have<br>
> some API on their backend).<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://pacscilife.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://pacscilife.blogspot.com/</a><br>
><br>
> >From one AS i get the sorry page, from another I'm able to surf fine.<br>
> Doesn't seem to be impacting direct connections to <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">google.com</a>, just<br>
> clicking out of Gmail, for example.<br>
><br>
> Anyone else seeing this, and what symptoms?<br>
><br>
> - DL<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:04, Larry Sheldon<<a href="mailto:LarrySheldon@cox.net">LarrySheldon@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Is it just me, or is google broken--every blog on their stuff gives a "we<br>
>> are sorry--spurious request"<br>
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