All too often I get the following message when attempting a forum search: "The time taken to process your request has exceeded the allowable limit of 60 seconds. Please notify the server administrator (using the mail link below) that this error has occurred.

Note: You can override the request time limit by adding a 'RequestTimeout' parameter to the URL used to request the page (e.g. page.cfm?RequestTimeout=500)"

Now, this is probably quite clear to someone else, but poor, ignorant me can't make any sense out of it. Does this mean that there is a way to extend the amount of time allowed for the search? If so, exactly how would that be done? (Hopefully, you can phrase an answer in real English instead of whatever that is in the "Note".)

Thanks