About a year ago, if I do a few site:cakewalk type searches, google starts asking me to confirm I am human, and questions my searches. Sometimes I get stuck in a loop, so have to give up, until it gets over it.

Maybe you were giving the wrong answer?

Maybe, but sometimes the promt comes up after 2 searches. Lets me search one more time, then asks me again. Which makes that option a bit tedious.
 
They really should have addressed the forum by now. The google site: search was always a work around

bitflipper
 
A few tips that might help you when querying via the Google search engine:
 

This is useful information! I thought I had tried many of these qualifiers on Google, but none of them worked. I assumed Google ignored them, because 99% of users don't know about them and why complicate life? So I stopped trying, but I see now that these do work. Either I was somehow using incorrect syntax in all my attempts (entirely possible), or Google changed how they read queries. Thanks, bitflipper.

Kamikaze
 
They really should have addressed the forum by now. The google site: search was always a work around

well it is a forum for sonar after all, should be use to workarounds by now, it's practically the order of the day