About a few (maybe 2) year back, I was playing with the URL for Voat's search engine, out of curiosity. It turned out that if you structured the parameters in a certain way, the search request would be honored, despite it being supposedly disabled. When a very generic term was given, it would search for minutes, until the query timed out with an error message. You could scale it up by running multiple searches simultaneously. I believe this was fixed after the report.

