Why do we have to wait 120 seconds between searches?

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Hamster exhaustion?

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Last week’s thread
The current Pit thread

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Ah, thanks. I might have found those threads with a search, but…

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Do a Google search:

<your keywords here> site:straightdope.com

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I swap it around, and start with the “site:boards.straightdope.com” bit. The SDMB is the only site I search like that, so it auto-completes that text. Saves me some keystrokes.

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So they are more than 2 minutes apart.

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Thanks for the tips!

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The top “sticky” thread in ATMB is entitled “FAQs - Please Read First - Rules, Guidelines, Etiquette, Technical Issues.” When you click on it, it will show you a list of FAQ pages. The “Technical Issues” page includes “HOWTO: Search the SDMB using Google.” It’s a great guide written by alterego that explains how to use the free bandwidth–and highly sophisticated search algorithms–at Google instead of wearing out the poor little hamsters at SDMB.