MakeUseOf: Services Update

Apr. 4th, 2008 | by Travis Quinnelly |

Error!We experienced a small problem this morning with a MP3 enclosure in one of our posts causing the MakeUseOf feed to become invalid. This, of course, led to issues trying to view the feed with some feed readers.

The problem was rectified this evening and feeds are now back online.

We also noticed that our nice little “Google” hosted search functionality was displaying a blank search results page. It didn’t matter what was typed - it returned a blank page. Until we get this issue resolved, we’ve re-implemented the default WordPress search functionality.

Both matters are back in working order, but being the dedicated geeks that we are, we felt it necessary to notify our readers of these issues and their current status.

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    Comment by David
    2008-04-04 18:40:11

    I was having trouble with http://www.google.com and their igoogle page this morning too. Same problem as you…so it isn’t your site. It would just display a blank page and give a squid error. It seems to be fixed now. - Dave.

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    Comment by Kaly
    2008-04-05 01:08:23

    The search functionality problem, probably was caused by Google and appeared to be location dependent. Here in UK search was working fine.

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    Comment by Abhijeet Mukherjee
    2008-04-05 04:49:29

    Hi….even I am having the problem with the Google Custom Search Engine on my site . It shows nothing , no matter what you type . I’d appreciate if you inform me through email or do a post about it when you get it resolved because I have already tried and having a hard time resolving it.

    Thanks

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    Comment by Dave
    2008-04-05 10:18:10

    My bad on the feed problems :)

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