# Search

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search/472863
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [November 15, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search/472863 "2008-11-15T14:45:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search/472863/1 "2008-11-15T14:45:22Z")

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Any word about progress with the search function? Right now I just get a blank screen when I try to search.

-FrL-

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### Author: ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search/472863/2 "2008-11-15T19:28:34Z")

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The last 2 times I’ve tried to search, I’ve gotten a database error. Then it tells me I need to wait 300 seconds before I search again :mad:

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### Author: ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search/472863/3 "2008-11-15T19:34:44Z")

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Specifically, I’ve gotten this error everytime I’ve tried to search:

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> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /home/straightdope/boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php on line 1008

I haven’t actually gotten any search results.

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### Author: ![Gozu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gozu/32/6615_2.png) [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search/472863/4 "2008-11-15T23:34:26Z")

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300 seconds is way too long. especially if I need to reformulate the search. how can this delay be reduced or eliminated?

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### Author: ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search/472863/5 "2008-11-16T15:38:49Z")

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> [@St.Urho](#):
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> The last 2 times I’ve tried to search, I’ve gotten a database error. Then it tells me I need to wait 300 seconds before I search again :mad:

Same for me. Tried to search on keyword for particular user.

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### Author: ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search/472863/6 "2008-11-16T16:33:39Z")

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> [@St.Urho](#):
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> Specifically, I’ve gotten this error everytime I’ve tried to search:

What are your search terms?

The search function doesn’t like certain words _e.g._ ‘world’.

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### Author: ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search/472863/7 "2008-11-16T17:39:25Z")

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It’s happened with a few different searches. The only one I remember was firefox and mouse over