# search function messed up?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-messed-up/253778>\
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**Created:** [July 6, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-messed-up/253778 "2004-07-06T13:10:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-messed-up/253778/1 "2004-07-06T13:10:31Z")

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For the past four days i haven’t been able to conduct a search. I’ve used The “Search”, “Search this forum”, and “Advanced Search”. I always end up getting a “web page cannot be displayed” message. Not just on my computer, but computers at work too. What gives? Anyone else have this problem.

Oh, and I’m searching for a fairly new (last couple of weeks) thread, not an old one.

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**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-messed-up/253778/2 "2004-07-07T01:20:16Z")

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I had some trouble with the search function today, but totally different issues from what you had.

I searched for threads by a certain user name, with one keyword, any date, any forum and got no results. When I searched for all posts by that username, no keywords, any date, any forum, I found the thread I was looking for (by poring through a year’s worth of threads) and the thread clearly contained the keyword I’d used in the first search that returned no results.

WTF?

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function-messed-up/253778/3 "2004-07-07T20:01:23Z")

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As evidenced by **Jadis** , even when the search page works the function itself often doesn’t. Been that way since we went to vB3.