Replace the "Google Custom Search"

[Brian]

So... what's fundamentally the problem? (excluding the fact the forum has been abused previously).

That if we use the regular search it'll crash the forums every 20 odd seconds, as experienced previously.
We've tried cleaning up the forum, as well as adjusting the search and several other things but the SMF search is just not able to handle the large size and abuse this forum has experienced.
Hence why we've added google search, which only works for public searches (so any post a 'guest' can see.)

[Julio.]

That if we use the regular search it'll crash the forums every 20 odd seconds, as experienced previously.
We've tried cleaning up the forum, as well as adjusting the search and several other things but the SMF search is just not able to handle the large size and abuse this forum has experienced.
Hence why we've added google search, which only works for public searches (so any post a 'guest' can see.)

Doesn't limiting the resulting set of rows from the query to something stupidly small like 20 help at all? Because as far as I can see that would still be more useful than the Google Custom Search. I find things quicker manually searching than using the Google search.

[Brian]

Doesn't limiting the resulting set of rows from the query to something stupidly small like 20 help at all? Because as far as I can see that would still be more useful than the Google Custom Search. I find things quicker manually searching than using the Google search.

I remember when testing it with Janek we've put it to five and it still crashed the forums.

[SugarD]

Large forums shouldn't be causing this crash. Search still works on forums much larger than this one. It just takes awhile to produce results. Something is definitely broken internally.