Why does no one use the search function?!

flygning · May 24, 2008

I'll tell you why! (ha, tricked you!)

There is a limit (at least for me) of one search every 30 seconds. If you search for something, and there are no search results, you have to wait a while before you can search for something else. Since I get a lot of "no search results" results, this ends up very frustrating, and it is quicker to just go ask my question on a new thread.

Is there any logic to the search limit, and, if not, is there any way to reduce it? I've been on other forums where there is a limit of 5 or 10 seconds, but never 30.

Rachelsne · May 24, 2008

30 makes it frustrating, its probably because if everyone was searching every few seconds the site would slow down (maybe idk)

Corry · May 24, 2008

There is a logic, actually, but it was explained to me a long time ago and I can't remember it exactly. Something to the effect of it overloading the system when too many people are doing it at once?

I think I remember it also having to do with the search engine bots/spyders that crawl the site.

I wish I could remember the exact reasoning, but it's been a really long time since it was explained to me.