search problems

takotruckin · Post by **takotruckin** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:15 pm

anyone know what is up with the search? alot of times it never loads anything, just a blank screen. i thought maybe it was just me, but it looks like alot of people have this problem

Post by **doc** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:02 pm

Search is not what I would like it to be. We have done quite a lot of homework on this issue in the past with no solutions presenting themselves. We will continue to look for a better search facility. I appreciate your suggestion, even though it makes me more frustrated with no real answer.

doc

Post by **AdminSteve** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:18 pm

Please let me know what the search term you used.

Steve

sideshow · Post by **sideshow** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:30 pm

I haven't searched in a while. But what I noticed that searches were taking a long time. Sometimes they would time out, but reloading the page would sometimes return results fine.

takotruckin · Post by **takotruckin** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:46 pm

generally, it does it regardless what i am searching for.

weird, now it works with anything i try searching for. i will report back any terms i find it doesnt like though

Post by **Leatherneck** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:51 pm

I searched for the meaning of life and came up blank!

So I will continue to find the answer.

Post by **AdminSteve** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:20 pm

The way the forum search function is written was to keep the search from looking for common words(a, I, the, as, with, do). This helps keep the search from loading up the server and timing out with a blank result.

Oh and your only allowed so many searches at one time to help with system resources.

best to use the AND/OR statements - weber AND tuning rather than "how do I tune a weber carb" This search would yield results for the following (all posts that have the words - how, do, I, tune, a, weber, carb ) this can be a bit of a problem for the server and cause timouts(blank screens).

Its a bit more complicated than what I have written, but I hope this will help better understand the search function.

As for the meaning of life......I got nothin!

shopteacher · Post by **shopteacher** » Mon May 07, 2007 6:11 pm

takotruckin wrote:generally, it does it regardless what i am searching for.

weird, now it works with anything i try searching for. i will report back any terms i find it doesnt like though

i get the same if i am searching aspecific forum even when i use the boolean operators
i almost never pose the question "how do i tune a weber carb" i use tune and weber and carb
end up with a blank screen

when the search does work it comes back within 5 seconds.. if i wait longer than that it never comes in

Post by **Marc** » Mon May 07, 2007 9:32 pm

Next time you get a blank page, try refreshing it - this usually does the trick for me.