I don't know if this has ever happened to anyone...
Short version: I was running some searches on everyone's favorite search engine: Google. In this instance, I was interested in the less popular sites. So naturally, I went straight to option 10 on the search page results, then went to go to number 20.
Seems a little weird, but that's what I was doing - avoiding all the first few responses that everyone else follows.
What did I find?
Google told me "your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spy ware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now".
WTF?
It took a bit of haranguing and code-schuking to get the results I wanted, but the process was most annoying: an inverse Turing Test.
Here I was: a human trying to convince a computer program that I was not a computer program!
*sigh*
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