# what time is it???? search engine busy?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it-search-engine-busy/319331
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**Created:** [August 30, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it-search-engine-busy/319331 "2005-08-30T21:43:17Z")
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### Author:  [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it-search-engine-busy/319331/1 "2005-08-30T21:43:17Z")
Two questions: your clock and mine don’t coincide. Why not? (by the way, they usually do, and mine coincides with the radio)
Why is it that when I run a search, I get Website Not Responding? Too many people running searches at the same time? thanks. xo, C.
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### Author:  [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it-search-engine-busy/319331/2 "2005-08-30T21:44:21Z")
For example, my post above just said I posted at 4:43, but that was 10 minutes ago, and I just did it. WTF???
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it-search-engine-busy/319331/3 "2005-08-30T23:53:22Z")
The server clock falls back over time.
The tech staff corrects it when they get to it, but it’s not a big item on their “to do” list.
your humble TubaDiva
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### Author:  [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it-search-engine-busy/319331/4 "2005-08-31T01:24:15Z")
> [@CC](#):
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> when I run a search, I get Website Not Responding?
As of one minute ago, it’s still not responding (at least for me).
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it-search-engine-busy/319331/5 "2005-08-31T16:21:34Z")
The system has been a bit wonkier of late and quite a few people have complained of being timed out, etc.
We do apologize. I have asked the tech staff to look into the issue.
Looking at the latest [Internet Traffic Report](http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm), I note that service is generally lousy in the heartland and many of the routers show an index of less than 50%, so the system between your computer and our server is doubtless compromised as well. There’s nothing we can do about that.
\>[http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm](http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm)
your humble TubaDiva