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dandrewsen
Has anyone else been getting redirected to this page after doing a search via the Chrome address bar?
sp332
It does nothing but ask for captchas over and over?
talles
Same here @ work. Might check again when I got home.
ambiate
Without the 'back link', it cannot redirect you to your original search. Your 'from location' is google.com/sorry, so, once you pass the test, it sends you back to google.com/sorry instead of back to your previous activity which triggered the Captcha.
ecaron
Someone on your IP is hitting Google enough that Google's temporarily banning your IP.

Take your laptop to your neighborhood coffee shop as a proof of concept.

scottcanoni
This seems to happen sporadically in the morning at my company and I speculate that it's due to a large number of employees who are querying Google at the same time from the network's IP. Google sees this as bot-like behavior and shows the capthca.