# please wait 120 seconds? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 29, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-wait-120-seconds/769998 "2016-10-29T05:18:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-wait-120-seconds/769998/1 "2016-10-29T05:18:41Z")
It happens more often than not that my attempt to bring up a search will produce this result, even though i have entered the search only _ **once** _. Why is this? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-wait-120-seconds/769998/2 "2016-10-29T05:28:25Z")
Perhaps you had previously clicked on “New Posts”? That constitutes a search. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-wait-120-seconds/769998/3 "2016-10-29T14:56:32Z")
The search engine here is admittedly a bit wonky. This happens from time to time. For some reason, some folks are more prone to it than others. If the search engine here is giving you fits, you can always search the board using google: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638051](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638051) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-wait-120-seconds/769998/4 "2016-11-05T18:02:44Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > It happens more often than not that my attempt to bring up a search will produce this result, even though i have entered the search only _ **once** _. I just got this _several times_. I get it after clicking the post-count to get _Who Posted?_ window. That click doesn’t count as a search I don’t think — I’ve done this before and, anyway, can get multiple _Who Posted?_ windows within 120 seconds. Furthermore, the message is always “Please wait 120 seconds” or “Please wait 119 seconds” even if I deliberately wait 5 seconds after the _Who Posted?_ window appears. _ **However** _, if I wait 120 seconds after getting the _Who Posted?_ window my search succeeds. Yay! For the umpteenth time, a simple solution to all these woes and bugs is to simply replace the One search every two minutes throttle, with a Three searches every ten minutes throttle, or such. HTH. PS: There are many useful searches that can be done via SDMB Search that cannot be done with Google Search. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-wait-120-seconds/769998/5 "2016-11-05T18:06:28Z")
Many of the buttons that you wouldn’t think counted as a search actually do, although I’m not sure which. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-wait-120-seconds/769998/6 "2016-11-05T18:09:39Z")
That sometimes happens to me. What I suspect may have happened is that when I clicked on the button to perform the search, it somehow registered as a double-click and was interpreted as a second request to immediately perform the same search again. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-wait-120-seconds/769998/7 "2016-11-06T04:13:54Z")
It’s much too sensitive, like a hair trigger. It counts everything as a search. It isn’t like that on other sites so I reckon it isn’t the users fault and it doesn’t need to happen.