I looked and as far as I’m aware there is no check for google.com in the launcher specifically (unless you try to login via Google). There was, however, a check for google.com in the bootstrapper (INovaeInstaller.exe) which I did remove.
It looks like you’re experiencing a reboot bug that’s affecting a small number of users. Most often this seems to be caused by virus scanners and specialized firewall software. I already have a fix rolled out however the new version of the installation runtime caused our version numbers to rollover to double digits which broke some stuff within our distribution platform so you can’t actually download them through the installer or the launcher at the moment.