Google Search Has Become Slow With Excessive, Illogical CAPTCHA Challenges
A frequent user reports Google Search now takes 10-15 seconds to return results and repeatedly interrupts sessions with unusual CAPTCHA challenges (e.g. "what is a car"), even though modern LLMs can bypass such tests. The user sees this as evidence Google's core search infrastructure and anti-bot systems are deteriorating without improving actual bot detection.
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