# Searching stuffs things up.

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**Created:** [January 24, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-stuffs-things-up/389225 "2007-01-24T12:11:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![cooky173](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@cooky173](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cooky173)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-stuffs-things-up/389225/1 "2007-01-24T12:11:46Z")

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When I do a username search, thats fine, no problems.  
However when I try to do a search for specific words and then sort by relevancy the page times out before it gets anywhere. Page loads on the rest of the board slows down afterwards to. I haven’t tried other searches, mainly because I haven’t remembered to do so just before I go to bed or to do something else.

Is any one else experiencing this problem? Is it something that can be remedied or just something I will have to live with?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-stuffs-things-up/389225/2 "2007-01-24T16:34:33Z")

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Longstanding problem.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Mostly it’s slow, in any event.

Not a very robust search engine in vB and doesn’t work too swiftly.

Not sure what, if anything, we can do about it.