# Search broken? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 17, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-broken/561025 "2010-11-17T21:43:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-broken/561025/1 "2010-11-17T21:43:08Z")
I’ve been trying to search for a thread on “make ahead turkey gravy” and keep getting this error: 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 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-broken/561025/2 "2010-11-17T21:49:21Z")
I just made the same search: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 81 bytes) in /home/straightdope/boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/includes/class\_core.php on line 3225 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-broken/561025/3 "2010-11-17T21:51:14Z")
In the meantime, here’s the google search (there are several results - I have no idea which one you want): [http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aboards.straightdope.com+make+ahead+turkey+gravy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a](http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aboards.straightdope.com+make+ahead+turkey+gravy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-broken/561025/4 "2010-11-17T22:46:04Z")
Reported. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-broken/561025/5 "2010-11-18T01:20:56Z")
Me three: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1048576 bytes) in /home/straightdope/boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php on line 1008 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-broken/561025/6 "2010-11-18T01:22:31Z")
If you search for “turkey + gravy” you don’t break the system. Are you looking for a thread you saw sometime in the recent past? Last year. Or just in general? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-broken/561025/7 "2010-11-18T01:28:12Z")
And, maybe I have a better solution. I haven’t read the threads, but search the boards for “turkey +gravy + ahead.” That’s all. Don’t use “make,” which is a short word and causes fits. You get 27 hits for the three terms I posted above. Again, I didn’t read the threads, that’s your job. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-broken/561025/8 "2010-11-18T02:16:17Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > If you search for “turkey + gravy” you don’t break the system. > > Are you looking for a thread you saw sometime in the recent past? Last year. Or just in general? Looking for a thread I saw some time recently, but I think it was actually from last year. Weird that a phrase breaks the search engine. Has anyone else tried any 4-word searches lately? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-broken/561025/9 "2010-11-18T02:41:42Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Looking for a thread I saw some time recently, but I think it was actually from last year. > > Weird that a phrase breaks the search engine. Has anyone else tried any 4-word searches lately? It’s not about a “4-word search” but rather words that aren’t very common. I know it’s frustrating. Such is our poor search engine. And, I shouldn’t have said that “make” is a short word, rather a too common word which might bring up 1000’s of hits. Did you go back and read the 27 threads which “turkey + gravy + ahead” produce? Was it one of them? ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-broken/561025/10 "2010-11-18T02:51:28Z")
“easy bake oven” returns hits with no problems.