# I just spend 7 minutes on one search
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [January 7, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611 "2008-01-07T18:10:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@zeno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeno)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/1 "2008-01-07T18:10:59Z")
between timeouts and 2 minute limits. Way to go. I know everyone complains about it, but that’s what the pit is for. :mad:
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/2 "2008-01-07T18:12:42Z")
Do you realize that by doing all that searching you’ve contributed to the Timeouts?
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### Author:  [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/3 "2008-01-07T18:14:31Z")
That’s right **Lobsang** , blame the victim.
Next you’ll be saying **zeno** had it coming.
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/4 "2008-01-07T18:15:17Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang]
Do you realize that by doing all that searching you’ve contributed to the Timeouts?
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Seriously! Where does that asshole get off using the search function he paid for! He should be happy there is a perfectly useless little button up there, for it is shiny and brightens our days like the sun!
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### Author:  [@zeno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeno)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/5 "2008-01-07T18:16:14Z")
I do a search and it times out. OK I’ve some to expect that on this board. But it shouldn’t count as a search if the engine fails. I know, sucks to be me right?
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/6 "2008-01-07T18:26:49Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima]
Seriously! Where does that asshole get off using the search function he paid for! He should be happy there is a perfectly useless little button up there, for it is shiny and brightens our days like the sun!
[/QUOTE]
What? Was I chastizing him?
No I was asking if he realized that searches contribute to timeouts.
edit: I paid for my car.. does that mean I get to hog both lanes of the road?
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### Author:  [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/7 "2008-01-07T18:33:27Z")
Not to join in the bitching, but I had a situation in the last couple of days where I needed search very badly and it failed by giving me inconsistent results and saying there were no matches.
No threads with Iraq in the title older than a year? I beg to differ.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/8 "2008-01-07T18:35:11Z")
[QUOTE=the raindog]
That’s right **Lobsang** , blame the victim.
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Well **Zeno** _does_ have a rep for halfway completing a task, then halfway completing the remaining half of the task…
-Takes him _forever_ to get anything done.
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### Author:  [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/9 "2008-01-07T18:35:26Z")
Every time you do a search, God kills a hamster.
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/10 "2008-01-07T18:38:35Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang]
edit: I paid for my car.. does that mean I get to hog both lanes of the road?
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No, but you certainly should get to use the road as was promised to you, within the parameters to which both parties (I guess in the case of the road, that’d be you and the government) agree to, yes?
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/11 "2008-01-07T18:39:37Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima]
No, but you certainly should get to use the road as was promised to you, within the parameters to which both parties (I guess in the case of the road, that’d be you and the government) agree to, yes?
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OK ok.
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/12 "2008-01-07T19:49:37Z")
[QUOTE=zeno]
I do a search and it times out. OK I’ve some to expect that on this board. But it shouldn’t count as a search if the engine fails. I know, sucks to be me right?
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Except it must be impossible for you to do any search. Suppose you are halfway towards finding a successful match for your search string. It will take a finite amount of time to cover the remaining half of possible matches. At halfway through that search you still have a finite amount of time remaining.
You should never be able to complete a search, and you’re dragging us all down with you.
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### Author:  [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/13 "2008-01-07T20:49:07Z")
[QUOTE=Telemark]
You should never be able to complete a search, and you’re dragging us all down with you.
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Aww, don’t give him such a hard time; he doesn’t deserve it. He always struck me as the sort of poster that would meet you halfway.
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### Author:  [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/14 "2008-01-07T20:51:05Z")
I do a search every two minutes around the clock and never have a problem.
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### Author:  [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/15 "2008-01-07T20:54:04Z")
[QUOTE=Squink]
Well **Zeno** _does_ have a rep for halfway completing a task, then halfway completing the remaining half of the task…
-Takes him _forever_ to get anything done.
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::snicker::
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### Author:  [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/16 "2008-01-07T23:47:57Z")
[QUOTE=Waverly]
I do a search every two minutes around the clock and never have a problem.
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Some people would call that just getting old.
In case you’re still searching, they’re on top of your head…
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/17 "2008-01-08T00:52:51Z")
Thats _spent_, unless you burning my dog. In which case, all your base…
You get the idea.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/18 "2008-01-08T01:28:08Z")
[QUOTE=Squink]
Well **Zeno** _does_ have a rep for halfway completing a task, then halfway completing the remaining half of the task…
-Takes him _forever_ to get anything done.
[/QUOTE]
The **One Big Problem** with this board is that there are a number of members that are not only as smart (if not smarter, which is the safer bet) than you, but that are quicker to make the joke you wanted to make.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spend-7-minutes-on-one-search/432611/19 "2008-01-08T06:00:14Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang]
edit: I paid for my car.. does that mean I get to hog both lanes of the road?
[/QUOTE]
No, but you should be able to turn the radio on without straining the engine to the point where it dies.