Common words which cannot be searched for on the SL Forums

Posted on: April 21, 2006

Here's a problem I've been wrangling with for awhile on the SL Forums. It happens because of timeout problems in the database. It makes forum searching particularly difficult because: common words can't be searched for!

Shown here is the Advanced Search form:


Where it says "Key Word(s):", if you try searching for certain words like:

Linden
land
money
script

while "Search Entire Posts" is selected, it won't work. You'll get a blank white page.

This is particularly frustrating to me, as I've used the search form thousands of times, and I like to encourage others to be resourceful in finding their information too. Of course, when the tool doesn't work as expected, it's a pain.

Jeska Linden clued me in that you can change "Search Entire Posts" to "Search Titles Only", and this works if you want to be topical. :)

We're hoping it'll be ameliorated in the future. In the meantime, if you know more words that don't work, send 'em in to me. You can add a comment here, and I'll add them to the list for greater awareness.

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