Title: I just had my IP banned from google and I couldn't understand why, after enabling the 'google toolbar'.<p>The toolbar is useful because it allows you to see the pagerank of your pages, after enabling it the browser will restart.<p>And that's where the problem will occur, if you have a large number of browser windows or tabs open when you do this (or if after a browser crash you do a recovery) google will interpret the flurry of toolbar requests when the browser comes back up as an attempt at automated requests to their servers and will block your IP accordingly.<p>Highly annoying! Effectively the use of one (luxury) google service disables the use of another one that is far more essential.<p>I hope there is a way out of 'toolbar induced google purgatory'.<p>update: I can use google again (after 15 minutes), but the toolbar still does not function.
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