Help -- the DU Google search function has stopped working for me.

[snot]

I get this error message:

403. That’s an error.

Your client does not have permission to get URL /custom?q=shaping&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&sa=Search&domains=democraticunderground.com&client=pub-7805397860504090&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A11&hl=en&ad=w9&num=10 from this server. (Client IP address: 216.138.98.253)

We apologize for your inconvenience, but this request could not be processed.

Please click here to continue your search on Google.
That’s all we know.

Any suggestions?

[Zorra]

1. I am too. This was in the "Ask the Admins forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=437x2962
:shrug:

[snot]

6. Thanks! Good to know it's not just something I did to my machine.

[Suich]

2. If you scroll past the error message

to the line that says, "Please click here to continue your search on Google" and click "here", it works.

[snot]

5. Thanks, yes, sort of; but then the search results are from the whole web, not just DU.

Google's changed a lot of stuff lately . . . . I'm wondering if it has something to do with stepped-up efforts to collect info about us, which I try not to cooperate with.

[Kali]

3. doesn't it suck anyway?

I always use the DU search.

[snot]

4. Agreed; I usu. prefer the DU search, but depending on the kind of search,

occasionally Ggle seems like a better bet.

[applegrove]

7. Try google.ca (canada) instead of google.com????? (I actually have no idea what to do).