Hello! Is working for me. I have only opened your link in Google chrome and searched for "Android" (search suggestions working, too) and click ok. After this I see the result page. Can you try to delete cache and cookies? What browser you use? Kind regards Florian Freundliche Grüße Florian -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Pine W Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2014 18:26 An: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Special:Search returning errors on English Wikipedia I am unable to search using any of the options on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search This came to my attention when a user reported that they were unable to search English Wikipedia's help files. It turns out that none of the "advanced", "everything", "multimedia", or "content pages" search functions are working. All searches return the error "An error has occurred while searching: The search backend returned an error:" Pine _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Hmmm - its working for me. The first couple of times I tried it was slow but it worked. I tried both search engine options (BetaFeature and default) and a bunch of different search options. We don't have good logs for the default search and that error message looks like it came from there. If it did and its gone now we'll have to chalk it up to a temporary blip in the old search system that we don't really understand very well. That's a painful thing to say, but the last time I poked that system trying to fix it I took out enwiki's search for half an hour while it warmed its caches. I try not to taunt it unless it is seriously broken. Failing on all searches certainly counts so if it does it again then please reply. The BetaFeature search log is only complaining about errors that I know about and am fixing, literally right now. Nik On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Nikolas Everett <neverett(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Wikipedia functions The _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l