# search function

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function/74988>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [August 5, 2001, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function/74988 "2001-08-05T14:33:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![berdollos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@berdollos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berdollos)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function/74988/1 "2001-08-05T14:33:21Z")

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For the last two or more weeks, when I use the serach function to search for my posts, it does not work.

this is real frustrating as I want to seen the responses to my posts.

Hope you can help

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-function/74988/2 "2001-08-05T14:39:29Z")

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Are you selecting the forum that you posted in? When the search function was changed, it took me about a day before I realized that I had to pick a forum. The default forum is ATMB-just pick the correct forum from the list.