# Searching

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching/386576>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 3, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching/386576 "2007-01-03T18:50:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching/386576/21 "2007-01-12T19:00:34Z")

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[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven]  
I searched on threads started by me, a year or older, and got stuff going back to 2004. (I haven’t started very many threads.) So I don’t see any problem. However, whatever is going on (or not going on) for some of you, it’s being looked into. It’s not the A-1 Priority, however, the A-1 Priority is waiting for the plumber to unclog my toilets. Please be patient.  
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If being able to search the database is supposed to be one of the prime perks of membership here and fixing it isn’t a top priority, what exactly _is_ an “A-1” priority? And please, no jokes about your clogged plumbing.

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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 12, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching/386576/22 "2007-01-12T19:25:05Z")

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The search function on this board has been occasionally wonky for a while now. Not sure how or why, it just is. And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. That statement has been true for as long as we have had a board, sorry to say; all that’s been different is the degree of the wonkiness.

Since we are soon moving to a new install of the board on a new server this is not going to be a problem that follows us to our new home. So I doubt it will be fixed here, as this server will soon be taken out of service.

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching/386576/23 "2007-01-13T01:09:33Z")

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[QUOTE=TubaDiva]  
The search function on this board has been occasionally wonky for a while now. Not sure how or why, it just is. And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. That statement has been true for as long as we have had a board, sorry to say; all that’s been different is the degree of the wonkiness.

Since we are soon moving to a new install of the board on a new server this is not going to be a problem that follows us to our new home. So I doubt it will be fixed here, as this server will soon be taken out of service.  
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Halle-effing-lujah!!! 😃😃😃

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching/386576/24 "2007-01-13T04:48:04Z")

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[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq]  
Halle-effing-lujah!!! 😃😃😃  
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I just searched for **BrainGlutton** ’s OPs on the new server. The full 750 show up there! 😃😃

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