MAN! Am I ever sick of seeing that message!
I was only using the intitle: operator with “automatic comment submitter” (with quotes), to see how many sites have that exact phrase in their page Title.
intitle:”automatic comment submitter”
Is Google broken? 
On the other hand, using allintitle and removing the quotes works fine:
allintitle:Automated Comment Submitter
I think the Google search engine is doing things that the Google engineers are not aware of.
I mean, Google is a big machine, who could possibly keep track of it all?
that’ it,
G’morning from the Philippines,
Bompa
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Tags: google engineers, google search engine, matt cutts, search problems
Thanks for the comment.
So…. was the comment on my blog http://www.blog.adequately-average.com an automated comment?
I’d be curious to know!
:-p
Google went on vacation…
this usually happens if you our someone on your networking has been messing about with google, submitting loads of links.
that is a cool find.. “Google search engine is doing things that the Google engineers are not aware of” - that is how “Rise of the Machines” getting started!
This happened to me earlier just before I saw this post. That is when I use the browser Firefox. Haven’t tried it on IE.
Had this problem, too - in both Firefox 3 & IE 7. Downloaded a spy removal program (http://www.tenebril.com/), removed all traces of spyware, & that’s all it took.
Excellent content. Keep up the great work.