Searching in Digg
Digg is one of the best sites to look for quality content and hence is one of the places I “search” (other than Google) when I need to find quality links for a particular keyword.
However more often than not, when I search in Digg, I end up with this screen !
First of all it beats me as to why the traffic on Digg.com should matter in returning the search results ! Or is the message trying to convey that the traffic on the search domain(Digg.com/search) is high !
I am sure that you can map a subdomain(Digg.com/search) on to a different server. However the server under high traffic might be the Digg “database” which raises one important question !
Is the Digg “database” not optimized for search ?
Probably Kevin should answer this 
I am not sure of how many people use the Search feature, but I would definitely like to see Digg handle search operations more efficiently ! Or probably Digg should start a separate search engine similar to Wikiseek !
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[...] Venu has some interesting commentary on the problem. He argues that high volumes of traffic on Digg.com shouldn’t be affecting search results. And if it is, it shouldn’t be very hard to map the /search subdomain to a server (or 5) of its own. On the contrary, does the message imply that Digg.com/search is getting the overwhelming traffic? Doubtful. [...]
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