Forum:Wikia Search Errors

When searching for something, I am constantly coming up with a Wikia Search error. This is getting annoying and I have started to search through Google instead of Wikia Community central. I also have to go to create a new article when wanting to create a new article instead of searching for it and then pressing the red link when it comes up. Is anyone else getting this or is it just me. ☆ The  Solar  Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 21:06, May 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I have this problem too. Feel free to send in a bug report using Special:Contact, and it should be fixed ASAP. Mark  ( talk ) 21:17, May 23, 2010 (UTC)

Similar search problem
I have a problem with Wikia Search. At times, if I try to search for something (i.e., Username policy), I get a message stating:

Due to a system error, your search could not be completed.

If I try the search again, it works. The error does not occur every time.

I am posting here because my problem is similar to the issue in the headline. Can anyone at Wikia solve this problem? 67.180.128.232 00:42, May 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * Wikia knows about it. I already sent a message via Special:Contact. I don't think it is high on their priority list just yet. See Forum:Due to a system error, your search could not be completed.
 * Give them a few days to a week to sort it out. Usually if you retry your search it will work the 2nd or 3rd try.
 * If you still have the problem in a week, I encourage you and anyone else to use Special:Contact. If they get flooded with complaints it will up the priority (hopefully). -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:56 PM PST 27 May 2010


 * Searching a Wiki is among our top priorities, but the problem is that this error message is usually too temporary for our technical and ops teams to really spend the time trying to correct each one. Every time this message appears it is almost always during times when our site databases are under their highest demands, so this issue should hopefully be improved by the database hardware improvements mentioned on the Spring Update blog. --daNASCAT (Help Forum) (blog) 16:35, May 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * I was getting that error message, too. Sometimes search worked and sometimes it didn't. But the error message did not say what the system error was. I suggest having the error message say that the problem is temporary. I got the impression that the problem was permanent, and that there was something inherently wrong with my search, or search in general. --Timeshifter 15:35, May 29, 2010 (UTC)