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For some reason, each time we do a search, Google displays the following message:
We're sorry...... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
Is this just us, or are others experiencing the same problem?
This error message is most commonly seen when the IP address you're using is sending too many queries to Google, or when your browser's user-agent is not reporting correctly.
If you are in a large corporate environment which uses NAT to share a single real-world IP to the entire company, or sends all web traffic through a proxy server, you stand a much greater chance of seeing this message. In these situations, Google sees all of the corporate traffic as being from a single computer (IP Address).
If your security software likes to hide your user-agent header, you can also trigger this. Google's terms of use explicitly disallow using software to search for you. As a result, a nonexistent or unverified user-agent header can trigger this error.
