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Just installed serendipity and setting it up... the search function used to work but now it does not... Please help

Website:
http://www.firstgencelica.com/serendipity/

I have the following plugins installed.

Quicksearch
Search for an entry
version: 1.0

Calendar
QuickJump Calendar
version: 1.0

Recent Entries
Shows the titles and dates of the most recent entries
version: 1.3

Link List
Links manager - Shows your favorite links in the sidebar.
version: 1.6

Events
Shows your personal calendar with X upcoming scheduled events
version: 0.4

Archives
Browse archives by month
version: 1.0

Syndicate This Blog
Shows RSS syndication links
version: 1.0

Top Referrers
Shows top sites that linked to your blogs
version: 1.0

Blog Administration
Provides a link in the sidebar to your blog administration
version: 1.0


Event Plugins
Click here to install a new event plugin
Title Permissions
Markup: Serendipity
Apply basic serendipity markup to entry text
version: 1.1

Markup: NL2BR
Convert newlines to BR tags
version: 1.2

Browser Compatibility
Uses different (CSS) methods to enforce maximum browser compatibility
version: 1.0

Spam Protector
A variety of methods to prevent comment spam
version: 1.26

Spartacus
[S]erendipity [P]lugin [A]ccess [R]epository [T]ool [A]nd [C]ustomization/nification [S]ystem - Allows you to download plugins from our online repository
version: 2.4

Static Pages
Shows static pages inside your blog with your blogs design and all formattings. Adds a new menu item to the admin interface.
version: 3.15

Link List
Links manager - Shows your favorite links in the sidebar.
version: 1.4

User Profiles
Shows simple user profiles and allows to embed author pictures.
version: 0.11

Google Sitemap Generator
Creates a sitemap.gz, which can be used by the the Googlebot.
version: 0.10

My Calendar
Maintains a personal calendar
version: 0.6

Show entries via JavaScript
Provides javascript output of recent entries for inclusion on other, extern websites. (see the README in the plugins directory!)
version: 0.1

Hm, it does work for me -- when Isearch for "event" I get the entry containing that word?!

Regards,
Garvin

Try searching for the word "celica" and tell me if you get any results. It is strange that I get the same results as you do when using "event" but I do not get anything when seaching for "celica" when it should come up for every page.

The MySQL fulltext search strips word that are present in every entry! The MySQL fulltext search has a few "gotchas" that are described in their docs about how their indexing works and how certain matches are excluded

Regards,
Garvin

In the future, are you going to replace the current search with somthing that works better? Or, is there another search mod that I can use that works better?

Actually the MySQL fulltext search works pretty well. You don't want to see all entries in real life, do you? So we have no plans to create a different search, instead we prefer to use the quite well performing database internal functions...

Best regards,
Garvin