I searched for my name- "kwame". The request took 50 seconds. It returned a bunch of results as well and then did recursive calls for each of those, including

I searched for my name- "kwame". The request took 50 seconds. It returned a bunch of results as well and then did recursive calls for each of those, including "kwamile". The time it took for each of these calls was under 300 ms. I typed "kwamile" in the search field and pressed enter. Took a long time but should have been immediate because this search was already conducted. You should just implement the caching yourself. That will improve things A LOT.