(vanity) Has Search been disabled on FR for today?

Nov 6, 2012 | (self)

[JustSayNoToNannies]

When I click the Search link, I get a blkank page (Firefox) or an HTTP 403 Forbidden (IE). Has Search been disabled to cut down on server strain? (There may already be posts about this, but I can't find them because I can't search. ;D)

[tsowellfan]

I had the same problem most of the afternoon yesterday whenever I tried to search an article before posting it. It took forever and never did load search results.

[RobertClark]

I just tried a search from the forum page and got results.

[Sgt_Schultze]

use Google instead - it is very robust

topic site:freerepublic.com

[dfwgator]

Go to Google, type your search query and then add “site:www.freerepublic.com” to the end of it.

[oh8eleven]

Has Search been disabled to cut down on server strain?
Yes, but sadly, inane vanities still get through.

[shhrubbery!]

I got the same thing when I tried to do a search on Akin - wanted to see what the latest MO polls were showing.

This is what the Chrome message said:

Access to the webpage was denied
You are not authorized to access the webpage at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=%2Aakin.
You may need to sign in.
HTTP Error 403 (Forbidden): The server refused to fulfill the request.

I noted the message above "You may need to sign in." I signed in, but got the same message.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

:-p Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Nice shot. Made me chuckle. :)

[acw011]

The site is screaming fast today - hope that continues!

[Kirkwood]

Works for me (IE).

[txrangerette]

I tried it just now after seeing your post.

I typed “ohio” into the box above keywords, and got back a bunch of articles with Ohio election themes.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Go to Google, type your search query and then add “site:www.freerepublic.com” to the end of it.

I always assumed there was at least a few hours latency there - but when I filtered on the last 24 hours and sorted by date, I got results as recent as 3 minutes ago. Thanks for the suggestion!

[deport]

Go to the following page, type in your search in the upper right hand corner. You can search under keyword, title, user, etc.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?tab=comments

[LADY J]

I’ve always had faster & better results with Dogpile.com

[smokingfrog]

John found some problem with the servers yesterday and corrected it to get things moving at normal speed today. Whatever he did seems to have worked, but it also broke the search feature.

[Bon of Babble]

Is this temporary or permanent??

[1rudeboy]

Did you do a Search? This thread was posted earlier.

[smokingfrog]

keyword still works, but title search doesn’t - at least not for me

[LADY J]

I forgot to mention - if you posted a reply to the thread you’re looking for - just click on New Posts To You & find it there.