Help! SDMB search isn't working!

…well, not for me, anyway.

If I do the “search for all threads by this user” option for someone else, it gives me results, and I can see what other people have posted.

But if I do it with my name (or do someone else’s name and replace their name with min in the URL bar), it says “Please enter some words or a username to search for,” and it doesn’t register.

I think it has to do with the length of my name (I can’t see what else it would be.)

So what’s up? Is this a problem which you can fix, or do I just need to change my name?

Hmm . . . dunno.

Search may not be working right now. Not sure why.

Let me drop a note to our techs, no promise as to what might happen, but let’s see.

your humble TubaDiva
Administrator

that the problem’s been here a long time.
But the main things seem to be:

> there is a time lag to get things into the index
> there is no indexing on 1- or 2-letter words, to avoid an index so full of “a” and “to” that it really slows down.

Search Function Question 5/1

"Search" icon on individual postings doesn’t work! 5/5

How does Search work. I can’t find even half the places I’ve been to.6/16

Scope of searches 7/29

There’s a batch more from before some “big changeover”, whenever that was, so it looks like search is much improved.

Search engine bites the Almighty Big One 12/15/99

Fix the !@#^^##@ search engine! 8/22/99

Searching woes 7/8/99

The “Big Changeover” was sometime last May, I believe. Prior to that time, we were using the Ultimate Bulletin Board software, whereas since then, we’ve used the vBulletin software, so almost nothing technical from before then is valid anymore. There was also a lesser change a couple of months ago, but that was just an upgrade to a different version of vB, so most stuff remained valid then.