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"Search" is not working properly - MSE IT Team attention required

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  • One-Eye
    One-Eye Posts: 71,666 Forumite
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    third failure today (this time I typed the search term and pressed enter)

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  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Try clearing your cookies as forum search works for me .
  • jellynose
    jellynose Posts: 475 Forumite
    Why am I told that I have to wait 15 seconds in between searches when it is a new search. I have searched nothing previously.......
    Jellynose
  • One-Eye
    One-Eye Posts: 71,666 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Results so far today from 13 searches in normal course of business:

    7 = worked OK
    4 = "wait 15 seconds" failures
    2 = false "no matches"
  • One-Eye
    One-Eye Posts: 71,666 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    21/02 - Results from 17 searches:

    12 = worked OK
    5 = "wait 15 seconds" failures
    0 = false "no matches"
  • tgroom57
    tgroom57 Posts: 1,433 Forumite
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    edited 23 January 2015 at 9:04AM
    Wait 15. - selecting from drop down list and pressing go button.

    Yesterday a false "no matches" for "itv"
    I will try pressing enter in future see if that helps.
    Update: tried typing search term and pressing enter button instead of clicking go button. = Wait 15.
  • Painkiller
    Painkiller Posts: 6,146 Forumite
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    Is this browser related? I'm having no issues in Opera 12.17 but as soon as I switch to firefox, I immediately get a false 'no matches' message, followed by a wait 14 seconds message.
  • thingamaBob
    thingamaBob Posts: 21,232 Forumite
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    Painkiller wrote: »
    Is this browser related? I'm having no issues in Opera 12.17 but as soon as I switch to firefox, I immediately get a false 'no matches' message, followed by a wait 14 seconds message.

    I'm using Chrome and getting problems. Only did about 5 searches yesterday but only had 2 first time successes. Had one false no match and 2 wait 15 seconds on first search.
  • thingamaBob
    thingamaBob Posts: 21,232 Forumite
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    2 minutes ago:-
    First search. Response: 1.This forum requires that you wait 15 seconds between searches. Please try again in 17 seconds.

    Worked at second attempt.
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    Painkiller wrote: »
    Is this browser related?

    I would suspect more server side. vBulletin search has always been a bit flaky, and the custom set up here does not help.
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