What's up with the two minute rule for subsequent searches?

I was just trying to find a specific, recent Pit thread, so I figured I’d use the Search function.

The first search I did had the keywords too tightly chosen - so I tried to use a second set, and was told that searches are not allowed to happen but once every two minutes for a given user.

How long as this policy been in effect? And, what’s the rationale? Are searches that much of a speed bump to the bulletin board software? It certainly is very annoying for someone whose first search was such a miserable pile of goat crap, compared to what I was looking to find.

The change was made at the end of April. This thread explains it.

Seems to be down to 60 seconds now!

YAY!
(I am bad a judging time)

You are correct.

That’s good to see.