# Is Search Broken?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-search-broken/558846>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 30, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-search-broken/558846 "2010-10-30T02:18:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-search-broken/558846/1 "2010-10-30T02:18:58Z")

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Is anyone else having trouble with searches?

When I try to do a search I get this

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> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 79 bytes) in /home/straightdope/boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/includes/class\_core.php on line 3223

Then it makes me wait 120 seconds before I can try again. When I do try again I get the same message.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-search-broken/558846/2 "2010-10-30T02:22:54Z")

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I just did a search, no prob. Are you doing it from the quickie pulldown or the “advanced search” page?

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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-search-broken/558846/3 "2010-10-30T02:29:03Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> I just did a search, no prob. Are you doing it from the quickie pulldown or the “advanced search” page?

It happens with both.

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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-search-broken/558846/4 "2010-10-30T02:30:05Z")

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It doesn’t seem to be happening now.