# Searching Problems

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-problems/473340>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 18, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-problems/473340 "2008-11-18T19:50:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-problems/473340/1 "2008-11-18T19:50:12Z")

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I’ve been getting this message:

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 1151

When I try to search. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-problems/473340/2 "2008-11-18T20:03:15Z")

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Yup, frequently. I don’t want to sound like a Whinging Winny, but a site that is supposed to be an archive of information, really needs an adequate search function.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-problems/473340/3 "2008-11-18T20:33:32Z")

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If I search before 300 seconds are up, now it’ll give me the “you need to wait x number of seconds” message, but it still gives me that weird message. Odd. I’ve never had it before. Oh well. I think I can still search for new posts, though.

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-problems/473340/4 "2008-11-19T08:54:13Z")

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It does not like certain words, such as World.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-problems/473340/5 "2008-11-19T11:41:23Z")

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Please, please could we either do away and away with the multi-minute search limit, or admit defeat?

Under “User Hostile”, it says “The SDMB search engine.”