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Nick
It says if you don't want to wait click this link. Why not do it right in the first place? Just populate the list the fastest right off and tell people to have patience.
gmilam
It gives people the illusion of control?

OR

It gives them something to do while they wait?
Neutron
Some tech folks who knows PHP and MYSQL explained me once, but I forgot. It needs some delay before it can proceed. unsure.gif
Confused2
Possible reason..
If the search took a long time some browsers might decide the page wasn't found - the "click here" slows you down a bit. (???)

If you got page not found and went back to the search page you'd press 'search' again and never get a result - the 'click here' page just points at the results page so you would get there eventually.

-C2.
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