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March 20, 2007
Google Just Called Me Spyware
Google just called me spyware. There I was, innocently searching for some information at my usual frantic pace, when Google unceremoniously cut me off with the following screen.
I must be the fastest Google searcher ever for it to think I was searching so fast that I must actually be spyware.
Sphere It
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Digg it
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Bookmark it
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Facebook it
Google does that in response to some variants of this clever hack.
That's an odd screen you got there. Looks like one of the fake Bank phishing emails that litter my inbox. Maybe it's the font or maybe's is that you shrank the screenshot.
Yeah, I shrunk the screenshot. Gives an offputting effect.
I've been getting that screen a lot. Funny thing is, it all started when I moved to Microsoft...
Here we have it. First internet speed control.