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by infinitone 2400 days ago
Just tried it acouple times and keep getting hit by google captcha...

Maybe this is the Google AI team trying to get more people to solv'em? ;-)

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Good point, let me temporarily switch the default search provider to DuckDuckGo. This will take a while to propagate to the browsers.

A workaround in the meantime is to enter a URL in the box instead.

Edit: Switched to DDG as default search provider for this. Back up at 21:24 PST.

Edit @23:00 PST: I've opened an issue with Google Cloud Support (the system is hosted on GCP even tho it is cloud-agnostic) and I don't expect they will be able to provide a resolution because this is probably the CAPTCHA behaving correctly.

BTW, it could be the AI team getting some more data, who knows? ;)

Somehow tho I think whatever we do is simply a drop in a bucket for them.