Do other Paperpile users find they get directed to a captcha screen when searching Google Scholar?

[Kerim]

I have no idea if there is any reason that Paperpile would have anything to do with this, but I find that whenever I search Google Scholar (not other Google searches) I get directed to a CAPTCHA screen. Just wondering if there might be a connection? Anyone else experiencing this?

[stefan]

It’s not unlikely that there is a connection. Also if you do many web lookups in the Google Docs plugin you might hit Google Scholar more often than they like.

Google Scholar automated queries

I’ve started being blocked from Google Scholar on a regular basis. I expect this might be due to Paperpile. Could you please let me know if this is likely to be the case and if there is any way of stopping it from happening. The message is: " Google Sorry… We’re sorry… … but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now. See Google Help for more information. "

[Kerim]

I wish Google would allow apps like Paperpile to register so that they don’t treat such queries as malware… It wouldn’t be so bad except it always takes me 2 or 3 tries to pass the CAPTCHA. I must not be a human…

[Jodi_Schneider]

@Kerim It’s very likely to happen when you “Select all” and then “auto-update”.

When Google detects automatic traffic, it puts up the CAPTCHA:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/86640?hl=en

[Kerim]

I rarely run auto-update, and never on “select all” (I always run filters first), but this problem is quite persistent. I think having PP open in one of my tabs makes the problem worse, but I maybe that is just my imagination?