Trouble with Search

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Howdy. So I was looking for a thread (Manda JO’s ‘healthy rules for relationships’ thread from MPSIMS, definitely less than a week old, if anyone would care to save me here) because I wanted to link to it in another thread. Searched for it. Didn’t find it. Changed search terms. Didn’t find it. Changed search terms. Didn’t find it. Finally I picked one word that I knew had been in the title (‘healthy’), searched all open forums (searching in title only) for the last 2 weeks (up until this point I had been searching one forum only, last week only, to try to keep the server strain low)… still didn’t find it.

‘Hmm,’ I think, ‘I wonder if there’s something weird going on here.’ So I look at the thread I had just been reading, pick a word from the title of that thread (‘diplomacy’), do a search on that word in thread titles from that forum (MPSIMS) in the last week.

Nothing. Now, I know this thread exists, and I know this word is in the title – I’m looking at the thing. But it doesn’t show up when I search for it.

Anyone else had this problem? Is this still the database-being-built thing?

Thanks in advance for any help or advice or commiseration about this intensely frustrating experience (actually it was kind of a relief once I figured out that it wasn’t just me being unable to find this one thread. Although I still haven’t found it. I’m going through the MPSIMS thread list one by one now. I will not be denied!).

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Did you find it yet White Lightening?:slight_smile:

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Oh, geez. Now I need an egg-on-the-face smilie.

So ‘healthy’ wasn’t in the title. I still searched rules, rule, rule*, and relationships, relationship, relationship*.

Hey, donkeyoatey, thank you kindly. I knew someone would be along to help me in my misery sooner or later. I appreciate it.

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White Lightning - I picked a thread on page 2 of MPSIMS, that had been started a few days ago, and searched for a keyword in the title. The thread was found. (It was something about baseball.)
I believe that very recent threads may not be indexed yet, and so a search might fail to reveal those. I would have to confirm though that there is indeed a lag time for index creation.
Did you find an example of an old thread (more than a day old) that was not found through a search? (Example would need to include a link to the thread, and the search parameters entered.)

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Never mind. Various other issues at work here. Thanks for helping me find the thread, donkeyoatey. Sorry to bother, Arnold Winkelried.

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You’re welcome, White Lightning. Btw, I put “relationships” in the keyword box, “Manda Jo” in the username box and it was the first one found.