Google is blocking our requests due to "automated queries"; what's the best way to find out why?

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Published on 2010-06-15T17:01:06Z Indexed on 2010/06/15 17:03 UTC
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alt text This started a few weeks ago and we thought it was a virus so we checked every computer and all though 50%(Yeah, that's right) were infected once they were cleaned the problem didn't go away. It's really frustrating so I want to figure it out so I need suggestions on how to find the culprit. I think the router has logging but it logs everyone so it's hard to tell and I might be able to setup a proxy but again it's hard to tell when and what to monitor. What are your suggestions?

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