# Search not working on new site or Google **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877 "2020-06-22T17:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/1 "2020-06-22T17:33:16Z")
I’m trying to search for Cafe Society threads with “1917” in the thread title. The new board search does not find anything. (Also, there does not appear to be a way to limit searches to words only appearing in the title.) A Google search results in several hits, but none of the links work. When I click on any link, I get: “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.” I’ve gotten this page so many times today that it’s the new 502/504 error. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/2 "2020-06-22T17:37:56Z")
> [@robby](#): > > The new board search does not find anything. I’m not finding anything, either. > [@](#): > > (Also, there does not appear to be a way to limit searches to words only appearing in the title.) Use the Matching in Title Only checkbox under Advanced Search. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/3 "2020-06-22T17:43:34Z")
Probably going to take awhile for Google indexing to update. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/4 "2020-06-22T17:45:55Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Use the Matching in Title Only checkbox under Advanced Search. Thanks! I’d missed that checkbox. Still not finding anything using the new board search, though. Google search has always been my backup when the board search is flaky, but now Google search is equally useless if none of the links work. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/5 "2020-06-22T17:48:46Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Probably going to take awhile for Google indexing to update. So eventually the links on Google should all update? ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/6 "2020-06-22T18:18:47Z")
Yeah. The way Google works is that a site crawler will navigate the site and index all the content that it can get to. But I’d be willing to bet that a crawler hasn’t indexed the Discourse version of the SDMB yet, so currently any search result URLs probably point somewhere that doesn’t actually exist anymore in terms of the way they’re formatted, etc… As far as the board search functionality, it seems to work fine- better even in some ways (there are more options). ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/7 "2020-06-22T21:38:38Z")
The board search is now showing one result for “1917” from an April 2020 thread. Then there is a time gap going back to 2002. I wonder if the new board is still indexing, too. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/8 "2020-06-22T23:52:53Z")
My last post wasn’t very clear. The board search is now showing two results for “1917” in the thread title in Cafe Society, one of which is relevant to me. The first result is from April 2020. The other is from December 2002. I know there are other threads from the time the movie was released in December 2019, but they’re not coming up at this time. If there’s some indexing operation that still needs to run for the new board, hopefully this improves, because right now I still can’t find the threads I’m looking for—not with the board search (missing results) or Google search (get results but links do not work). ---
**Author:** ![samsaffron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/samsaffron/32/3066_2.png) [@samsaffron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samsaffron)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/9 "2020-06-23T00:04:33Z")
Yeah I can see a lot of search results missing, I just kicked off a full re-index but this is going to take a few hours to run. There are millions of posts here. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/10 "2020-06-23T01:17:40Z")
Thanks, Sam! We do indeed have a lot of posts—our community has been posting for more than 20 years! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/11 "2020-06-23T18:07:24Z")
The board search function seems to be working much better now. I am now able to find all of the threads I was looking for. The Google links still aren’t working, though. Hopefully this will work itself out soon, because I suspect that Google searches are the main way we get new members. ---
**Author:** ![samsaffron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/samsaffron/32/3066_2.png) [@samsaffron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samsaffron)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-not-working-on-new-site-or-google/911877/12 "2020-06-24T00:50:34Z")
Yeah Google will get better over time … I will make sure we have a sitemap here to speed up the scanning. btw … a trick `1917 in:title` will do a title search which is sometimes what you desire. (to avoid searching body)