{"id":16166,"date":"2026-08-03T12:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/google-search-tests-sign-in-to-verify-searches-are-human-not-captcha\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:46:18","slug":"google-search-tests-sign-in-to-verify-searches-are-human-not-captcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/google-search-tests-sign-in-to-verify-searches-are-human-not-captcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Tests Sign In To Verify Searches Are Human (Not Captcha)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Search is testing asking searchers to sign in to verify they are humans and not bots conducting the searches. I don&#8217;t think Google has done this before, geneally when Google tries to verify human versus bot activity, Google will serve a captcha and has done so for many years. But this test is asking the searcher to sign in.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Search is testing asking searchers to sign in to verify they are humans and not bots conducting the searches. I don&#8217;t think Google has done this before, geneally when Google tries to verify human versus bot activity, Google will serve a captcha and has done so for many years. But this test is asking the searcher to sign in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-roundtable"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/craig\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}