Originally Posted by
RichMSN
The performance problems had nothing to with the speed of search requests. Rather the old search engine was bringing the entire site down.
... I'd rather FT perform well in the interim while they hammer out a new search engine rather than timing out and having connections reset yet having the (theoretical) capability to use the old search engine. YMMV.
I will second that, as the site was becoming pretty much inaccessible. The problems I encountered would definitely seem to have disappeared with the replacement of the old search engine.