It doesn’t though, and trust me when I say that between my career and interests, I probably use google more than 98% of the population and this is the first time it has ever happened.

Happens to me almost anytime I use Google with a VPN active

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I’ve seen it when submitting a number of similar searches sometimes, or when obtaining many search results.

Google doesn’t care about your search contents containing profanity. The ToS issue is gonna be bots hitting their system or similar. I would expect that they’re trying to disrupt SEO people who try to reverse-engineer and game their search result rankings.

Do you use a VPN?

I get this all the time when I’m connected to a commercial VPN.

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