• baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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    not really; that page is much simpler to process and upload than an entire pedophile archive

    sharing anything over the internet takes resources, in this case a lot of them, and with government infrastructure they’re sometimes far behind the modern day trends on purpose, for stability/reliability reasons.

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      There is also usually a load balancer in front of the actual application servers, so the page is probably being served by that instead

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      Also caching is a factor here. Search results in particular can be a nightmare since variations in spelling or query string parameters having a difference of a single character makes it different than what others previously searched.