Searching turned off for Anonymous Users

I'm not sure exactly what was going on but what seemed to be happening was someone was launching six or more searches a minute. Multiple windows? Deliberate attempt to mung the server? At the same time, a couple of crawlers were onsite, so that didn't help.

Anyway, we've turned anonymous searches back off. Seems like the only thing we can do.

Hugs,
Erin and Bob