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Re:You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999 by arrowgunz on Thursday September 01, 2011 @03:13AM (#2948966)
Can someone please explain me why that happens? Google says - "Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. Please try your request again later."
Re:You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999 by wisty on Thursday September 01, 2011 @03:50AM (#2949041)
It seems to slow down, as you increase from:

111..111 11111..111111

and eventually crashes.

I'm guessing there is some kind of grammar parser breaking horribly. There's grammar parsers that have extremely poor performance trying to parse stuff that looks like this. It might do:

search 1 and 111111..11111

search 11 and 11111..11111

...

search 1 and 1 and 11111..111

...

...

...

and google detects that you are DOSing its server.

OK, someone else has pointed out that this is a range search, and google may be protecting CC searches.

Re:You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999 by tonyedgecombe on Thursday September 01, 2011 @03:52AM (#2949049)
Years ago somebody discovered you could Google for credit card numbers that had been left on the web inadvertently, by searching for the right number range. I wonder if that is why it is unavailable.
Re:You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999 by YokoZar on Thursday September 01, 2011 @03:49AM (#2949039)
Do you regularly search for 99999...999999? Sounds like it's unusual to me!