Gotten Blocked By Google On An Organizational Level?

What if you could find a way to make everyone’s life a bit more difficult by making Google think that you are trying a DOS attack on it? That’s exactly what I did, not intentionally, the other day, and it is safe to say that not many people were happy with me. As I mentioned in my previous post, Google was showing advertising numbers once every ten times. So I ran over 1000 queries on Google for different search terms to get some inside information. Needless to say that I was blocked by Google and every time I searched for something, Google asked me to fill out a captcha form. But I sort of assumed that was something temporary and not on an organizational level.

The very next day I received a few tasty calls from my IT department about the script that they thought I had been running to get info from Google. Apparently they found it hard to believe that some one could put that much load on Google in a matter of minutes. Not only that, the IT team told me that Google was blocking everyone from doing searches on it without entering those dreadful curvy letters+numbers. So yes. There is such a thing as being penalized for over-searching. Of course, if Google allowed everyone to abuse it then there would be no Google.