# Best Internet Message Board Search Engine

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-internet-message-board-search-engine/207627>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 15, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-internet-message-board-search-engine/207627 "2003-10-15T19:16:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-internet-message-board-search-engine/207627/1 "2003-10-15T19:16:51Z")

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I’m talking about search engines that search any message board on the Internet. This is a very handy substitute for the Straightdope search – especially on those days (like today) when the hamster has a bladder infection. I used to use [BoardReader.com](http://BoardReader.com) – but that Internet message board search engine seems to have lost most of its database AND isn’t current. If you need convincing go to [Boardreader.com](http://Boardreader.com) and type in ‘[Straightdope.com](http://Straightdope.com).’ — then check out the pitiful results. A few hits and _only the thread titles - with zero responses under those._ I have no idea what happened at BoardReader. So ------ is there another message board search engine out there to take its place – and the place of ‘hamster search’?

I did try to do a search on the Straightdope Board but got the ‘Website not responding’ page OR ‘the administrator only allows a request every 30 seconds’ messages. Now I’m trying here -------- it’s a time when the obsessive-compulsive prevail - but I can almost feel my time on this planet tick away.