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Google Search is not working today ???

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rachel

8 years ago

Everyone, thanks for this debugging help. May I ask you to post the specific search terms you used that weren't working? The HTML source posted by kelseymh makes me think the issue might be related to the instructables (or forum topics, etc) being returned from the search, rather than the browser.

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kelseymhrachel

Reply 8 years ago

Sigh. As of this morning, the searches I had used which produced failures are working just fine:
bugs
bug reports
sliders
sliders inurl:Accessibility
Either everything is back to normal (did you roll out some unrelated bug fix?), or it was intermittent, and therefore hard to troubleshoot.

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Wehrdo

8 years ago

Search isn't working for me either. Mac OS X 10.6.4, Firefox 3.6.3 or Safari 5.0.3.

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NachoMahma

8 years ago

. Works for me. WinXP SP3 & FF3.6.15

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kelseymhNachoMahma

Reply 8 years ago

Could you (or Kiteman) do a "view source" and see if the "HTML" (it isn't really) looks the same as what I posted?

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NachoMahmakelseymh

Reply 8 years ago

. I get what appears to be a well-formed page (first few lines below). A search for "tiles" comes up MT.



<!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "about:legacy-compat">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="https://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
<head>
<title>Search Instructables</title>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
@import url( "/static/css/instructables.css?" );
@import url( "/static/css/instructabot.css?" );
...

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StumpChunkmankelseymh

Reply 8 years ago

You might have seen something weird if you were trying to get source code when Rachel was updating the website. Yeah?

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StumpChunkmankelseymh

Reply 8 years ago

She emailed that she pushed a fix for an issue that came up at 1220...depending on how long it took, and how log she waited after it finished...it could easily have been around then.

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Lithium RainStumpChunkman

Reply 8 years ago

I am having this problem now. Search results show nothing but a blank page where hits should be. :(

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StumpChunkmanLithium Rain

Reply 8 years ago

Yeah, I just did some more checking with Firefox, and while certain things return the normal set of results, other search queries were blank. I tried the same searches in Chromium at it seemed to work fine. I passed the information on to the Dev Team, hopefully they'll have some time soon.

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Lithium Rain

8 years ago

Ubuntu Linux running both Chromium 10.0.648.127 and Firefox 3.6.15 here - no such bug.

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kelseymh

8 years ago

Well, it seems to be working again, at least for me (FF on Mac).

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kelseymh

8 years ago

I confirm this -- I'm using Firefox 3.6.15 under MacOSX 10.5.8. The search box generates an appropriate URL, but the display is completely empty. The HTML source being returned is:

<tiles:insert xmlns:tiles="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles"
 definition=".search"><tiles:put name="title" value="Search
 Instructables" /><tiles:put name="titlebar" value="/common
 /null.html" /><tiles:put name="body" value="/pages/search
 /search_body.jsp" /></tiles:insert>
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Kitemankelseymh

Reply 8 years ago

I wonder if it's a Mac-only bug?

I'm using the same version of FF, in XP, and it's fine.

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Kiteman

8 years ago

As of this time-stamp, the search is working.

If it still isn't working for you, could you add a few details, such as your OS & browser?

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jpayton

8 years ago

I noticed this too. Only source code that loads is: