Search Speed

Hi Folks,


Has anyone any tips for speeding up a search? Long story short. I'm searching google map locations and matching metadata using some stored searches. If I set the result set to unlimited it takes ~12 secs for 36 records to be returned if I limit it to 5 it still takes ~5 secs when ideally I'd want it less than a second. It could be i need better hardware, but I thought I'd ask if there were any caching tricks etc that might help



Cheers



K