a simple search for mellon returns multiple links to the same thread, quite messy, give it a try and see for yourself.

the old search worked fine, why would someone mess with that? When I search, I want to find threads with my keywords sorted by last post....this is doing something else, returning multiple hits to the same thread and it's not sorted in order either. Maybe it's sorted by thread date and not post date. In noticed that a thread I just updated is at the very bottom of all the pages because it's an old thread.

 

The old search was causing several issues with the index. Thus, why were fixing it (and a supplemental reason why we occasionally have DB errors)

 

was the old search not the stock vb?

 

That, I am not 100% sure about

 

just curious I have a forum with the stock vb search and never had a problem, but this forum is massive and that might cause some issues.

 

It's a probable cause. Another forum I used to frequent was even larger than this one, and they had disabled search long ago, because of DB issues

 

I couldn't imagine this forum without a search function...what would the "search!" ****'s have to do?