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A comment on Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search. Parent comment

Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by bambax on Thursday January 06, 2011 @11:23AM (#2075875)
Fewer humans do that query because it is kept almost secret (why do bots like allintext?)

I wouldn't mind answering a captcha from time to time, but instead Google just bans the use of allintext for several dozen minutes (or more). Really frustrating.

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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by chronomex on Thursday January 06, 2011 @08:24PM (#2078143)
And number-range searches. I can't count how many times I've wound up with a number-range search query that wouldn't work for me from any IP.
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