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according to mr. raggett the search function works fine but almost every time i have tried to use it recently, it just hangs there, not doing anything for ages and after a few minutes i give up. do i need to give it even more time?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

How general are your parameters? I used it twice this morning for fairly specific terms and got my results almost as fast as "New Answers" comes up.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

search by title is yr best bet.

― 'Curt' Russell (noodle vague), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

lots of words bad. short words v bad.

using the search link at the bottom (rather than the quick box in the top right) gives you more power too. my fave trick is to restrict the date you are searching using before/after offsets in days

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

hmmm. i tried very specific terms and restricting the date but still nothing happened at all. i wonder if it is due to using safari? i'll try downloading firefox and see if using that works.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

box in the top right?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

i use safari, so it's not that

teeny:

Settings
>General Preferences
>>Add a Google Search box to every page
TICK DA BOX

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

ah, I'd seen that but assumed it was just a general google search box, like for folks who don't use firefox or whatever. duh.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of which, I wish that search box would let you search all of ILX in one go, rather than restricting you to a specific board.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:53 (twenty years ago)

It can sometimes take many minutes to come up with a set of results, I usually leave it to do its thang.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 02:47 (twenty years ago)

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