Is there any chance that the Fluther search will ever be fixed ?

I doubt it. Ben is the only person in a position to fix it. He keeps paying for hosting this site and does the occasional emergency fix, but at this point in his career he just keeps Fluther alive out of kindness. His plate is full of other stuff. I wouldn’t expect him to tackle anything beyond the absolute essentials.

I just tried search, and it worked for me.
Seems like sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t.

Here?

Here is the search method I use. site:www.fluther.com

site:www dot fluther dot com frizzer would find you frizzer comments. ( remove dot and insert ”.” make sure to leave a space between com and the item to be searched for. )

I just tested it as I do occasionally by writing in a term I know has been used. I just typed in “Aldi” because I know people have talked about Aldi on occasion recently. Users with the letters “Aldi” in their name come up but for the posts that have Aldi, nothing, just the 404 message.

Aldi.
19 results.

@ibstubro: When I clicked on your link, I got your profile page. When I just typed in Aldi again, in search bar, I got the same thing – the error message.

I just clicked on it again, @ibstubro and I got the 19 members with “Aldi” in their names, but not posts that say Aldi. I know it should pull up any posts that have Aldi in them and it’s not.

@jca I clicked on @ibstubro‘s link and saw the Aldi results too. I typed Aldi and saw all the result and no 404.

@Mimishu1995: Did you see posts that have Aldi, or just users that have Aldi in their names?

@jca Everything. I even clicked on the posts and they appeared.

I get only usernames that contain “aldi” plus the 404 message. Tried it with a couple of different browsers and got the same result.

I got 18 users and 19 questions with Aldi, as I linked above.

Occasionally search works for me, occasionally not. I don’t try it often.

I think I’m Win7. Firefox, for sure.

I have no problem finding users, but I can’t find questions. I figured out that if there is a question I really want to find, I’ll ask a throw-away question that’s along the same lines as the one I want to fine. I did that once, and sure enough the question I wanted to find was listed under the “similar questions” list.

Who the hell is Aldi?!

@Dutchess_III: Aldi is a store. I think (if I can remember correctly), it was maybe mentioned in the post from someone about the difference between “your and you’re.”

It’s also been mentioned when people talk about stores.

I’m with @thorninmud. Users but not posts.

Yes, I remember, @jca. It was just a joke. Aldi was mentioned in the “When to use the possessive apostrophe” question. We decided “Aldi” does not require the possessive because it is comprised of the first two letters of the owner’s name, and the first two letters of the word “discount.”

@Dutchess_III: Right. So it should come up when it’s searched for.

The Aldi grocery store, do they sell gas at any of…
Feb 8, 2009… I’ve wiki’d it already and they didn’t mention anything about gas, or smaller locations. Has Aldi been known to buy a gas station / convenient…
www.fluther.com/.../the-aldi-grocery-store-do-they-sell-gas-at-any-of/
Are stores like Aldi and Lidl typical of German supermarkets, in…
Jun 7, 2011… Yes – but they used to have Wal-Mart…and it looked a LOT like Wal-Mart in the U.S.—with the exception that the carts were like the carts at…
www.fluther.com/.../are-stores-like-aldi-and-lidl-typical-of-german- supermarkets-in/
Care to share a quick, easy, and delicious time-saving recipe?
Aldi’s got a bad batch of bananas that went from green to gray with brown spots. I had 3 that were hopeless so I got on the internet and searched ’
www.fluther.com/.../care-to-share-a-quick-easy-and-delicious-time-saving- recipe/
How much is a gallon of milk where you live?
Jan 7, 2014… $3.69 at Aldi, but it sours faster. We used to have a million cattle ranches in my area, until the damned suburbs exploded. Now milk and beef…
www.fluther.com/.../how-much-is-a-gallon-of-milk-where-you-live/
What are the names of the grocery stores in your area?
Nov 17, 2008… EmpressPixie’s avatar. Oh! We have Aldi in Chicago too! I always forget about them because the closest one is still ridiculously hard to get to.
www.fluther.com/.../what-are-the-names-of-the-grocery-stores-in-your-area/
Do you have a recipe for Pimento Cheese Spread that’s slightly…
Jul 23, 2015… BTW, Aldi salad dressing is tangier and zippier than Miracle Whip. Glad I put this in social! ibstubro (14437 points )“Great Answer” (0 points ) ...
www.fluther.com/.../do-you-have-a-recipe-for-pimento-cheese-spread-thats- slightly/
Can you think of any good food mash ups?
Mar 7, 2015… I love Dorito and Miracle Whip (but using the much better tasting Aldi ‘salad dressing’) sandwiches. Pimento cheese and pretzel sandwiches.
www.fluther.com/.../can-you-think-of-any-good-food-mash-ups/
Do you have a recipe that uses a large amount of…
Mar 9, 2014… Today’s solution was going to Aldi and buying a $5 cheese pizza. I added anchovies, black olives, straw mushrooms, artichoke hearts diced…
www.fluther.com/.../do-you-have-a-recipe-that-uses-a-large-amount-of/
Is it safe to eat the outside casing of deli meats?
May 28, 2014… You might need to switch it up a bit to get rid of that much meat before it spoils. Don’t you have Aldi’s? A buck a frank sounds kind of extravagant…
www.fluther.com/.../is-it-safe-to-eat-the-outside-casing-of-deli-meats/
Have popular grocery stores mislead our knowledge of value?
Jul 21, 2010… I shop at Aldi or a local grocery chain called Marc’s, and we fill our buggy bi- weekly for $50—$60. We have been doing this for years. In order to…
www.fluther.com/.../have-popular-grocery-stores-mislead-our-knowledge-of- value/

I also have been finding that not everything that is “new” is posted under my “activity for you.” So I may see that I got a GA but see no change in my “activity for you.” I can click on the GA and then see that there have been new posts.

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@ibstubro: That’s great. I wonder why some get the posts when they search and others don’t (me and @thorninmud to name at least two).

That makes me wonder too, if my phone is better than the computers ~

@ibstubro , are you using the mobile platform too?

I’ll search later from my Samsung Galaxy 4.

I am searching from my desktop, @thorninmud. My only option.

If someone needs something searched, PM me, although I occasionally get the 404 message myself.

Not sure, but if you would like to search something, Google it and include the word “Fluther”.

How excellent, @dxs! I did that, using “Native American” and there they are!

I just searched for “Aldi” from my Samsung Galaxy 4 and it comes up with the 404 error message.

I did it on my desk top and it came up with a whole list (the same list I got when I google “Aldi, fluther.”

Maybe it’s broken for some users but not others? I don’t know. Weird that some say it does not work for them (from any device) and others it does work.

Well, there have been times when I did a search and nothing came up like it should. All I got were users. As far as Aldi, goes, that one word did work.

I just used it to find the alliteration game. Took a few different phrasings of the question, but it worked fine.