# Very odd search bug. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 7, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-odd-search-bug/660356 "2013-06-07T04:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-odd-search-bug/660356/1 "2013-06-07T04:35:17Z")
The Boards are not crashing for me, but a very annoying issue is happening in different computers when I use the search function, this happens in Firefox and Windows 7 or XP: On many occasions after pressing the “Search now” button the search page comes (sometimes in an instant) with the “You can not search within x seconds” message. At first I thought that I was just pressing the button twice while waiting for the search to end, but it has happened many times on different computers in the last 7 days or so, and it is not behaving logically, I just tried it and in an instant after pressing the search now button I got: > [@](#): > > This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds between searches. Please try again in 27 seconds. Uh, it should say “try again in 120 seconds” if I had been the one making the error. It seems to work fine by the second or third attempt. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-odd-search-bug/660356/2 "2013-06-07T04:49:55Z")
These are just from the last few days. > **[Search timer glitches](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692010)** > > Last 2-3 days, I go to the Advanced Search page, enter a parameter and execute the search only to be told “This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds between searches. Please try again in xx seconds”, when in fact it was my first search of the... > **[Is Search broken?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692946)** > > I’ve tried to search dozens of times since yesterday evening and it always comes up with “server hangup” and doesn’t return anything (searching from multiple devices from multiple places.) Now, Google is a decent way to search for a specific,... > **[Problem with the search function?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692370)** > > This has been happening to me rather a lot lately: I start a search, it runs for a few seconds, then I get a message saying, “This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds between searches. Please try again in 88 seconds.” Always “88 seconds” or... > **[Board performance problems](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692185)** > > Rising board traffic (currently ~14M pageviews/mo) coupled with the increasing frequency of outages, error messages and other glitches has led the STM tech staff to conclude we’ve outgrown our current server capacity. We’re getting estimates and... If you don’t want to read them all, the problem you’re having is just a symptom of the board or the server starting to die and the official answer is that it’s overloaded they’re getting quotes on replacing it. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-odd-search-bug/660356/3 "2013-06-07T04:57:09Z")
This time I did not search for those. :smack: But thank you for those, I liked the “We should give Red Bull to the hamsters” comment. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-odd-search-bug/660356/4 "2013-06-07T05:03:43Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > This time I did not search for those. :smack: > > But thank you for those, I liked the “We should give Red Bull to the hamsters” comment. I already knew they were there. If I had the problem and was about to post that question I wouldn’t have searched for it either. But I’m a ‘new posts’ guy so I had seen them earlier. Also, I think when i started noticing the issue I went looking for them. ATMB is an easy forum to look through.