Because it does a full text search of all the contents of the DB.
~~~~~~~~~~~ Nick Tonkin On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Robert Landrum wrote: > Does anyone know why search.cpan.org is always the s-l-o-w-e-s-t site > on the internet? I can't believe it always busy. I've had trouble > hitting it at 3 AM. > > Maybe it's just me... > > > Rob > > -- > "Only two things are infinite: The universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not > sure about the former." --Albert Einstein >