You Are Not a Robot [The Internet Is Down]

So I was doing some aimless websurfing one afternoon when I decided to look something up via Google.

But rather than see my search results after entering keywords, I ended up having to accomplish the captcha above to confirm that I wasn't some bot just gaming the system.

Anyone else have this happen to them? Personally, I think it a bit odd; yet I suppose it is strangely comforting to know that Google cares whether human beings are actually using their site -- well, comforting in an existential sort of way, that is.

I do wonder, though, what Google does with this kind of information...

(Oh, it's easy enough for the curious among you to recreate the incident. Just key in the URL http://www.google.com/sorry and you're good to go.)

[Confused about The Internet Is Down? Then read the first in the series.]