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  • Do not use Google for searching Phoronix - it's broken.

    Things like this

    We're sorry...
    ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
    make it impossible to search Phoronix efficiently. (No, I am not a computer virus)

  • #2
    Can you provide an example? It seems to work just fine here. For example searching for "sitehoronix.com Catalyst 9.8".

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    • #3
      Sorry, forgot that in the first post. An example is:

      Code:
      allintext:"Luc Verhagen" novell

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      • #4
        I wonder how one can inform Google about this bug.

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        • #5
          Probably some heuristics run amok. There's a contact form for problems here, although it seems to suggest an IP ban rather than per-query filtering.

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