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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon slifty

Google starts requiring a captcha over time

Open slifty opened this issue 8 years ago • 6 comments

One of the flaws with this approach is that the random and algorithmically generated queries look random and algorithmically generated.

In other words, Google can tell that it is a robot, and eventually if the wrong keyword combinations appear it may trigger a forced captcha.

Some possible solutions to explore:

  1. Find an alternative URL source
  2. Find a way to access the feeling lucky button
  3. Change the frequency or general quantity of calls
  4. ???

slifty avatar Mar 30 '17 05:03 slifty

(One possible alternative source is duckduckgo)

slifty avatar Mar 30 '17 15:03 slifty

@peterberbec you experimented with duckduckgo -- my main concern is that when I tried it I noticed a little bit more instances of attempted NSFW results (they didn't go through, but that could be disconcerting to users). What was your experience with the experiment?

slifty avatar Mar 30 '17 20:03 slifty

Tried startpage.com?

afxgit avatar Mar 30 '17 20:03 afxgit

DDG paused if it hit NSFW if the safeoff tag wasn't on. not optimal.

Anyone know bing? Might be good to have M$ do something useful for once...

peterberbec avatar Mar 30 '17 21:03 peterberbec

I lowered the number of tabs to just 2, which seems to be far less likely to start bothering google.

slifty avatar Apr 05 '17 03:04 slifty

The lowered number of tabs seems to have significantly lowered the number of reports of captcha requests. They still happen, but not as often (and I have personally experienced them a lot less as well)

slifty avatar Apr 07 '17 06:04 slifty