I edited the post pages at By Hook or By Cook to forward to this blog. The first couple went just fine, but once I stepped away for a while and returned to complete the project, Blogger had added word verification to my publishing page. Apparently their computers thought I was a spam blog.
Not that this is the first time Google has suggested I was an automated process with malicious intent. Every once in a while while I'm browsing through my iGoogle homepage I get the following message:
Google Error
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.
What's that phrase about the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing? I've noted before that the various divisions at Google don't always seem to play nicely with one another.
And while we're on the subject (kinda), does anybody else think the word verification Google uses makes it nearly as hard for humans as for computers? I've left a lot of comments on a lot of sites and I've found most of them to have more user-friendly human checking than Google's warped and twisted letters. More than once I've tried to type in what I thought it said, only to have to do it all over again because I couldn't read the letters! Surely there's a better way; if only I could figure out what it is and sell it to Google ....
On the positive side, though, I really like the new Google search widget (installed in my sidebar). I'm also intrigued by the new comment option for commenting right on the page. I miss the avatars, but I really like keeping everything together on a single page. What do you think?
This does seem so much simpler! Wow!
ReplyDeleteAbout the word verifications - you're so right. For some of them it's like someone is out there thinking, "What would be the hardest word for a person to type? Let's use that word!" (I personally have a hard time typing the word "biopsy.")
OR, they put an "r" so close to a "w" that it looks like some letter we've never seen before. It's all too complicated! I hope you figure out a better way and become a millionaire!
I almost always mess up the word verification the first time. It's very annoying.
ReplyDeleteI do like being able to schedule posts, though, which is something new Google finally added to Blogger.