# SEARCH Function Is Whacko **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 26, 2009, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-is-whacko/504314 "2009-07-26T13:14:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-is-whacko/504314/1 "2009-07-26T13:14:36Z")
I put in all the details to do an “Advanced” search on my name, because there’s something I have written that I want to copy and paste, okay? So I enter Quasimodem in the user field and scroll down to SEARCH and the dad-blamed thing just hangs and hangs and hangs and hangs. So I click SEARCH again, and it sends me back to waiting 300 seconds. That has happened three times in a row this morning. Help? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-is-whacko/504314/2 "2009-07-26T13:50:43Z")
You broke the Board? 😛 It’s been pretty wonky the last hour or so. Right this minute, as I type, it’s much better. I assume it’s all part of the intermittent problems over the last week. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-is-whacko/504314/3 "2009-07-26T14:10:42Z")
I know I’ve been “ridin’ it pretty hard” lately, **Sammy** , but no, I didn’t think it was me! 😃 I tend to be very careful with the SEARCH function, because if you rush it, it will give you that 300 second message pretty much every time. Glad it’s better now. Thank You! Quasi