I have the problem in both Firefox and IE. Searches time out, I get "oops cannot retrieve the URL" regularly. Also google ads are taking forever to load - that is if they do! I get the oops message there too quite often, or just blank areas where the ads are supposed to be.
It started slowing about a week ago, and it's gotten progressively worse over time.
I'm wondering if there isn't any problem at IS? Seems like a friend of mine who doesn't use IS isn't having a problem... not sure though - any thoughts?