Recipe search function is not working

[karykat]

Over the course of a couple days I've been searching for a particular cake recipe that was featured a few weeks ago. (The Italian prune plum cake.)

I know where I can get another copy of it.

But I am surprised that the recipe search function doesn't work.

I've accessed it a couple different ways over the course of a few days and still nothing.

Are the technological wizards aware of this and fixing it?

[NYCkaren]

I haven't been able to click on a recipe all weekend. I assume the technoligical wizards don't work weekends. (I wouldn't mind that plum cake recipe either.)

[Servorg]

Is this the thread you need? http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/326509

[karykat]

This is the one I was looking for: http://www.chow.com/recipes/11029

I had saved it a different way. I have it in process right now so we'll know how it turns out soon.

But I have been having problem with this recipe search function and wanted "the powers that be" to know that.

Thanks very much for the link.

[Jacquilynne]

Hrmm, that link's not working for me at all. It seems that recipe display is broken for some browsers and not others. I've opened a ticket for our Engineering team to take a look at.

What search terms were you using to find the recipe?

[Servorg]

There were a couple of others I found: (the first original Chow link was not good but the cached copy was still good of course - which I linked to)

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:5DwK9DgGrrsJ:www.chow.com/recipes/11283+chowhound:+italian+plum+cake&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us

and if you go to the thread below you will find karykat's OP on this subject with the address to that same bad link:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/324690

Permalink to karykat's individual post here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/3246...

[Servorg]

And the plum buckle recipe from karykat (finally) is here: http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:...

Whew! I'm exhausted. ;-D

[karykat]

Thanks for your persistence!

[karykat]

I think I just used "plum" to search. The name of the recipe is "plum buckle with pecan topping." (Which, by the way, I made yesterday with prune plums, and it was very good.)

[Jacquilynne]

Is your problem that:

a) you search on 'plum', you get results, but that isn't amongst them
b) you search on 'plum' and you get an error instead of results
c) you search on 'plum', see that recipe in the results, but when you click on it, you get an error?
d) something else

There are definitely problems happening here (I'm getting B, and if I search on 'plum cake' thus getting that result, C) and I'm trying to pin down what precisely they are so I can update the ticket I opened or add a new problem ticket if there are search problems.

[hannaone]

The links to recipes are working again.
I tried the search for "plum" and got the error.
Searched on "plum cake", clicked on the link and it worked.
Searched on "plum buckle with pecan topping" and the search took me straight to the recipe page.

[hannaone]

Getting the old "Application Error" on all recipe links I checked.

[NYCkaren]

Me too, I keep clicking on the black pepper martini recipe, to no avail. If this keeps up I'm going to need a martini!