search problems
- takotruckin
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search problems
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
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- AdminSteve
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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!
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
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i get the same if i am searching aspecific forum even when i use the boolean operatorstakotruckin 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 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