Sniff, these days after a google or two, I just get their 403 forbidden pages. They must have figured out I have violated http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html No Automated Querying, or even 'Note that "sending automated queries" includes, among other things: * performing "offline" searches on Google.'
Probably serves me right for becoming too dependent on them, smoking the proprietary crack. Of course no other wwwoffle-users have seen this, so it must be because I'm connecting from a scruffy ISP or country. Wait, this might be an opportunity to think about wget --random-wait style features, and fetch priority ordering. BTW --limit-rate might be nice too as during intensive fetches I can hardly get a word in edgewise to other connections.
