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IE7 Blocking Google Image Search?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the play-nicely-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "I just tried a Google Image Search in IE7 for the first time. Whenever I click on an image, my browser tells me in big bold letters, "This is a reported phishing website." Try it yourself: make sure automatic phishing detection is turned on and do an (adorable) image search; click on one of the result thumbnails. MSN Live Image Search has no such issues. Insert Microsoft evil conspiracy theory here." I get this behavior under IE7, Win XP Pro, SP2, Parallels, Mac OS X.

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  1. Can't duplicate by KillerBob · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Vista RC1 and XP Pro SP2. Not able to duplicate. Methinks PEBKAC.

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  2. Meanwhile a bigger conspiracy is afoot by baadger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...the URL and query string and hence everything you are Googling for being passed to Microsoft's servers. Think of all those Google searches (and the following immediate clicks) Microsoft could extrapolate and use to improve their own search engine...

  3. Re:Works great here by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As usual, this story is posted by our good friend kdawson, the editor who thought the Enlightenment icon was a state of being.

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