# Search engine not working?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-not-working/75619>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [August 9, 2001, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-not-working/75619 "2001-08-09T16:54:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-not-working/75619/1 "2001-08-09T16:54:11Z")

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Is it just me or is the search engine not working?

It doesn’t seem to find any of the threads I’ve posted to when I search under my user name. But I have posted recently.  
Did I miss the memo?

Can anyone fill me in on what’s going on?

Thank you, in advance…

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-not-working/75619/2 "2001-08-09T17:04:01Z")

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Works fine for me when I enter your username. Without wanting to sound patronising, I assume you’ve selected the right forums, ‘search by’ dates and so on?

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-not-working/75619/3 "2001-08-09T22:55:35Z")

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Could you have left it with the defaults ( **About This Message Board** and **Since 5 Days Ago** )? If so, that explains it, because when I search for your username using the defaults, it only brings up this thread, but if I change it to (choosing randomly) **MPSIMS** and **Since 30 Days Ago** , I get four threads.