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Judging by the speed of the seaches, I think it must be hosted over a dialup connection...
It is very rarely for upstream to be bottleneck in this sort of applications -- time to search is the most likely reason for slow response to any search engine, ie: a gzip compressed Google's result page is less than 4kb, thats 40Kbits, just over a second on 56k modem (it has 33kbits upstream).