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Old 08-28-2007, 02:44 PM
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Default Re: Organic Web Ranking Tool Blacklisting My IP?

This error message, I believe, was coopted from an older system Google used in 2005. At that time, a virus was making its rounds which caused the infected computer to run automated queries against Google looking for vulnerable servers. Google was able to spot the virus-originated queries and would show this error message.

It looks like they updated that old system to detect automated activity, but give visitors the benefit of the doubt by displaying a somewhat cryptic error message that insinuates the block is due to a virus or malware rather than an SEO tool.
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