# Search Issues

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-issues/732961>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 29, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-issues/732961 "2015-09-29T16:45:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-issues/732961/1 "2015-09-29T16:45:54Z")

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Every attempt I have made to do a search in the last hour has failed, returning only a blank page. Is anybody else having a similar issue?

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-issues/732961/2 "2015-09-29T16:58:27Z")

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I personally have never seen this problem, but you are definitely not the first to report it.

The search engine here is sometimes a bit wonky. The weird thing is, for some people it works just fine, but for others it has a lot more problems, and some folks find it just about completely unusable. Sometimes it clears up on its own, sometimes the problems persist. I don’t really have an explanation for any of it.

If you keep having problems, you can use google instead:

HOWTO: Search the SDMB using Google  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638051](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638051)