# Using search

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-search/20435>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 24, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-search/20435 "2000-05-24T19:37:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-search/20435/1 "2000-05-24T19:37:32Z")

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I cannot get the message board search to work. I type in my seach and I get to a screen that says:

Thank you for searching. Your search is in progress and you will be taken to the results in a moment. Thank you for your patience.

And that is it. I light of the snotty comments from certain people giving newbies a hard time about not searching. I wanted to find out if the search function really works.

Does it work for searching the message boards.  
I am using Netscape Communicator 4.7 on solaris.

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**Author:** ![X-files](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/76d3ee/32.png) [@X-files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X-files)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-search/20435/2 "2000-05-24T19:49:51Z")

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Ditto. Seems search has died.