I CanNot Search!!!!!!!!!

anjanke

I and others have REPEATEDLY requested the search be checked or repaired or what have you, with no change in system...

I seem to have greater chance of flying a plane solo w/Mario Andretti and four of his children before this miracle called SEARCH happens.

I will no longer try...

WileE-Dead

Gretchen had said in this thread that she was stumped and suggested it could possibly be a browser problem...which browser are you using?

[ October 05, 2002: Message edited by: Wile E. Coyote - HWWSI ]

anjanke

At first I thought it was AOL my home browser, but since it also happened at the school library and at work ...

I don't know what else to do and I REFUSE to go through page after page of a whole year's worth...

GettinControl

I can only search by putting in member # to get those posts other than that any searching under subjects has been impossible for months now.

GooCurlGirl

I can't do a search either major bummer. It is one of my favorite features of the board.

Gretchen

I guess you get your money's worth here at CurlTalk, anjanke.

Are any of the multiple browsers you're using IE?

svt

Thanks Wile E. for reminding me about that thread and thanks Gretchen for mentioning that search problems could be related to the browser!

Searches using AOL's 7.0 browser do not work for me. When I use Internet Explorer 6.0 or Netscape 7.0...voila!!! I'm a searchin fool!

Perhaps with AOL's upgrade to 8.0, I'll be able to use that browser to do searches.

Gretchen

Thank you, SVT, for your troubleshooting! I appreciate your proactive response to the problem.

Anthro Incarnate

Sometimes searches work and sometimes not...about 50% of the time I get a timed-out error ("can't find page"). Like GettinControl, I end up doing my searches by member number. Usually that's fine because I'm often searching for something I remember someone saying, but not being able to do consistent subject searches does suck. I have found that the more inputs I give, the more likely I am to get results (for example, "shampoo" is likely to time out, but "Aveda and Nexxus" is likely to produce results eventually).

I use IE.

Edited to add that when I say a search works, that means I get results before I get an error message. The search still often takes five minutes or so.

[ October 12, 2002: Message edited by: Tao of Anthro ]

Gretchen

AOL uses proprietary code that chooses not to recognize a lot of Web standards, and has historically had problems with many different programs.

GooCurlGirl

Thanks, Gretchen.
I did a seach using another internet explorer and it worked.

Gretchen

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Tao of Anthro:
I have found that the more inputs I give, the more likely I am to get results (for example, "shampoo" is likely to time out, but "Aveda and Nexxus" is likely to produce results eventually).


Edited to add that when I say a search works, that means I get results before I get an error message. The search still often takes five minutes or so.

[ October 12, 2002: Message edited by: Tao of Anthro ]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

This is true of any search engine. the more specific you can be, the faster and better your results will be.

GooCurlGirl

I tired doing searches from 4 different computers both at work/home and friends.
I cant do them
***all using aol****

WileE-Dead

bumpin' for Luna!

[ January 19, 2003: Message edited by: Wile E. Coyote - WWB ]