Check this out. It's an experimental Google engine. Basically, it works the same with one small difference. Whatever you type, a pull-down menu will appear showing popular searches and common phrases or words that you are probably looking for, and it'll show you the amount of results you'll get.
'Tis nifty, it works with javascript. It definately works best with broadband internet. Maybe this is the future of internet searching?
Btw: The forums are slow as hell. Other pages load normally, and I'm not down/uploading anything so I assume it's a server problem. I also hear that a bunch of php vulnerabilities have been fixed, and a new version of vBulletin is available. MasJ, you might want to look into that.