I made some improvements to search that should address the issues listed in this thread:

1. Blank Results page: If you are using Internet Explorer in a community with a lot of sub-communities, e.g. http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn, and you use the "Search Community" box in the top right, you will no longer get a blank page. This happened because IE has a 2083 character limit for URLs, and the community software was building out a longer string than that to identify all of the sub-communities it needed to search. I changed the code so that if there are more than 50 sub-communities, it just searches the whole site (and therefore doesn't need to build out the long search string that specifies all of the communities). This fixes the issue reported by K-Mac.

2. Google Search: I added a "Search VMware Communities using Google" option to the advanced search. Please see http://communities.vmware.com/search.jspa

Let me know if this works for you, or if there are other improvements to make on this.

Thanks, Robert

Robert Dell'Immagine, Director of VMware Communities

As a concrete example I just hit, I was looking for Core dump during exit with VMWare Fusion Beta (build 184177) [repost] (apologies, it's in a private forum). I tried to find it by searching for "report" by "etung" (my post contained the phrase "Thank you for the nice bug report") in that subforum - I got 10 results, none of which were that thread.