{"id":1092,"date":"2013-10-15T12:17:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T19:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrabber.com\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2024-08-06T01:04:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T08:04:59","slug":"egrabber-hack-3-ways-google-captcha-blocks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/egrabber-hack-3-ways-google-captcha-blocks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"eGrabber Hack: 3 more ways to get past Google CAPTCHA blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How often is your Google search blocked by CAPTCHA?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/captcha.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1093 aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/captcha.jpg?resize=219%2C137&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"captcha\" width=\"219\" height=\"137\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you search Google extensively on a daily basis, you would encounter it quite frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Internet researchers, online sourcing experts &amp; marketing pros who use Google to search prospects and candidate profiles face this puzzle challenge thrown by Google.<\/p>\n<p>One of the ways I wrote about in the past to get around this challenge was to use a secured Google search, in this <a style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/egrabber-hack-use-secured-google-to-get-past-google-captcha-blocks\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog post<\/a> But since then, if you have signed into Google in your browser, all searches are secured anyways, and that does not work any more.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 3 alternate ways to get past Google CAPTCHA blocks.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1-use-google-enhanced-search-engines\"><\/span><strong>1. Use Google enhanced search engines<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Search engines that are powered or enhanced by Google such as search.aol.com and search.comcast.net can help you get almost the same results as you would normally get from Google.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aol1.gif?ssl=1\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1094 aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aol1.gif?resize=708%2C84&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"aol1\" width=\"708\" height=\"84\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The image below shows search results from AOL &amp; Google displaying almost similar results for the keyword \u201cJava programmer resumes\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aol.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1095 aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aol.jpg?resize=700%2C448&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"aol\" width=\"700\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aol.jpg?resize=1024%2C656&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aol.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aol.jpg?w=1303&amp;ssl=1 1303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2-use-alternate-search-engines\"><\/span><strong>2. Use alternate search engines<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You might be already using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.bing.com<\/a>. Bing has a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/booleanblackbelt.com\/2010\/12\/the-big-deal-about-bing-for-sourcing-and-recruiting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">advantages<\/a> that can come handy for sourcing experts and recruiters.<\/p>\n<p>Search engines such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millionshort.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.millionshort.com<\/a> enables you to search selectively \u2013 remove or include top 100 sites, 1000 sites, 10k sites, 100k sites, million sites in your search.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ms1.gif?ssl=1\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1098 aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ms1.gif?resize=884%2C479&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ms\" width=\"884\" height=\"479\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mt.gif?ssl=1\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1097 aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mt.gif?resize=783%2C377&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mt\" width=\"783\" height=\"377\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3-use-metasearch-engines\"><\/span><strong>3. Use metasearch engines<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Metasearch engines are search tools that send user requests to several other search engines or databases and groups the results together into a single list or displays the results according to their source.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the metasearch engines are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.info.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Info.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webcrawler.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">WebCrawler<\/a>, etc. and you can get some more <a href=\"http:\/\/l-lists.com\/en\/lists\/e34z3f.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/webcrawler.gif?ssl=1\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1099 aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/webcrawler.gif?resize=930%2C109&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"webcrawler\" width=\"930\" height=\"109\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"update-4-use-google-custom-search-engines\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000cd;\"><strong>UPDATE! <\/strong><\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">4. Use Google Custom Search Engines<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Captcha&#8217;s seem to leave these search engines alone&#8230; for now. These search engines have all the goodness of a Google search, and may have a few more filters which may work for you. Here&#8217;s a good resource with a few of these search engines: <a href=\"http:\/\/booleanstrings.com\/2013\/12\/02\/working-around-captchas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">BooleanStrings blog post<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">PS: In case you need tools to build candidate pipelines from Google and other search engines, we <\/span>have them<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often is your Google search blocked by CAPTCHA? If you search Google extensively on a daily basis, you would encounter it quite frequently. Internet researchers, online sourcing experts &amp; marketing pros who use Google to search prospects and candidate profiles face this puzzle challenge thrown by Google. One of the ways I wrote about&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/egrabber-hack-3-ways-google-captcha-blocks-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">eGrabber Hack: 3 more ways to get past Google CAPTCHA blocks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-lead-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17257,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/17257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}