In the last couple of days Google has been arbitrarily rejecting search attempts, saying that I have visited a "Forbidden" web site. At first I thought I might be accidentaly viewing the web through a site that was redirecting input or that an inoccuous search had hit something very nasty, however when this happened after restart I traced the IP address below and it comes out as onspeed.com. (see below)

Onspeed is a connection accelerator (like V.42 on modems) and is provided by my ISP as part of my subscription. AFAIAA they do not compete directly with Google in any area.

It would appear that Google is treating this as a rival search engine that is trying to masquerade Google's results as its own, when this is clearly not the case.

Any ideas on avoidance (other than switching the accelerator off) or *effectively* reporting this bug to Google for correction.

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R. Mark Clayton

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Google
Error


Forbidden
Your client does not have permission to get URL /custom?q=guardian+urban+tree&num=20&hl=en&oe=ISO-8859-1&newwindow=1&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=G&hl=en&ie=IS O-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&client=pub-7803381336700505&channel=3181435462&cof= from this server. (Client IP address: 83.138.189.74)

The website you've just visited has tried to provide you with search results from Google. Unfortunately, the site violates our terms of service so your search could not be completed. If you would like to continue with your search, please click the link below, which will take you directly to Google and the results you've requested. We apologize for the inconvenience and encourage you to conduct future searches directly from google.com or through the Google Toolbar, which can be downloaded for free from this address: http://toolbar.google.com.
Click here to continue your search on Google.