Agreed. This party search/recruit function I've been using since launch and its pretty awful to be honest.

1) Search lasts 60 mins tops until it expires, its a pain starting a new one, then you wait another 60 mins for no one to join.

2) No one uses it therefore no one joins your party recruits, unless you shout in town for people to join and even then people don't use it

3) FF XI's works better, just go with that, solve a lot of issues for people and make things somewhat faster than it is for people who just want to group up, level and get $#!% done.