Bartertown.com

Just wondering why we have it and if it’s still necessary?
Just to be clear in talking about the 30 serving wait timer between searches.

Thanks

The timer is there to prevent bots from performing a "DDoS" attack. (Distributed Denial of Service)

Basically a bot can flood the search function and overwhelm the server. I feel it's annoying too, but it's there for protection for all legit users of the site.