I went trying to find the thread we were talking about LIFX, and though "hm, surely I'm not spelling it wrong" or selecting an option wrong etc. Saying search is broken on the AGN page would be putting it politely. The 'Quick Search' side has never worked for me, but now today even the Advanced Search returns nothing.

As just an example search:


And yes, I've tried unchecking first post only (which comes back checked each time), I've tried this sample search as 'kick starter'... every search I do gets zero results.

Fix it codey-one-kenobi... you're my only hope :(

... please :P

What Nerf Lord says. I do this for every site and just assume the site's own search is crap, if it even has one.

In the case of AusGamers though, Google indexes it very very well.

works fine

what choo talkin about willis?

search works perfectly for me, must be a usar porblem

This should be fixed now. We made some changes to DNS and the search backend was offlined.

If you are still having problems please holler.

i think the problem is that quick search doesn't search threads only titles and maybe OPs (not sure).But certainly a quick search on 'holler' doesn't return this thread, you need to then click on the "Advance Search" Search button, which defaults to 'message subject and body' to have it find this thread.

yeh, that is intentional

Yeh, it's more CPU intensive and from what (very little) I've looked at, most people seem to just search for thread topics. Not really a big deal though to change the default if its irritating to people.

Makes it hard for ME to find what I'm looking for, title search isn't very useful TBH.

I'm usually looking for something someone said in a topic rather than something that was necessarily the title of the thread, especially when on a busy forum its necessary to combine / coerce similar topics into a single thread. It may be different for other people tho!

pretty sure people want to search threads hey.