rogerd - 11:40 pm on May 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

Rob, if you were using a program like WPG or similar to check your rankings, that's the problem. Use of automated searching tools violates the TOS of most search engines.

If you were just searching manually, it's hard to imagine that they misidentified you as a bot, unless you had an extremely large number of searches in a short time.

At this point, your best bet is to ask to be unblocked and swear you won't ever do whatever you did again.