What the heck is a "Glimpse Error"?

Factual Questions
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I was trying to search for the word “lipogram” on A Word A Day (in the words and quotes archives only) , and I got this back from the search engine:

Glimpse error
The search parameters caused an error in the call to Glimpse.
Please try your search again with different parameters.

Output from Glimpse:

Can anyone tell me what this means?

Oh, and I also got it when I tried searching for other words; just in case the word “lipogram” caused the search engine to hang. And just in case I was searchng using the wrong index, I also tried my search using the “whole site minus words and quotes”… same thing. Does anyone know what it is, or is the search engine just not working? :confused: :confused:

P.S. I’ve used this search engine before with no problem at all, until now…

2

Glimpse is an indexing system that allows you to do text searches in a group of files.

The most likely cause of that error is that there were 0 matches for the word you searched for, and the programmers of the A Word A Day site didn’t properly code for that condition. I was able to get the site to produce that error every time I entered any obscure (but correctly spelled word), that was unlikely to be in any of their files. On more common words, it brought up matches every time.

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Thanks for the help, DMC… I’ll go try that now, in fact. Hey, it worked! Cool!