As many people know (Newbies and all), the web is full of search engines.  You use them for everything, from using Google to find a new product, ZDNet/CNet for a hardware review, or even Ask Jeeves for that homework question.
Now the creators of sourceforge.net in their foresight, believed many people may ask the same questions.  They believed that if they included a search bar (around the top left of the screen) then it would be used and then they would have lots of extre HD space sine questions would only be asked once.  Then people who also had the same question could search useing a very fast and accurate search engine.
They must have made it to small though, :( as noone seems to use it.  Maybe people want their answer at that sec, but wait, the search engine is much faster than posting so it can't be that.
Anyhow the point is *USE THE SEARCH ENGINE* I have and it is very fast and accurate.  Plus, most of the time someone else has asked that question already, and I can get my answer very quickly.  Others I don't find it so I start a new thread.

Curtis