what is the point of "Your last search was less than 5 seconds ago."

[Trayc]

yes, well, I wouldn't be searching again so soon if I had gotten any results. what is the point of limiting my ability to find useful and topical information? anyone?

[Trayc]

hmmm...i'm not TrayC, either...sorry to whoever was logged in!

[lotte world]

It's to stop automated trawling of the site.  You could write a program that would log in and spend all of its time searching for key words and either downloading the corresponding content (to make a copy of the site) or programmatically inserting replies which are ads or phishing attemps.

Restricting the search to once every five seconds shouldn't inconvenience humans, but will make automated processes slower.

At least, that's my assumption.

[Sprite06]

That feature is incredibly common on message boards and it prevents bots (or people) from flooding the server with search requests.

There's a much better method for searching on Waygook.

Go to www.google.com

Type "site:waygook.org (whatever you want to search)"

without the parenthesis or quotation marks.

 ;)