Search Not Working in Magento 1.9.0 RWD – Troubleshooting

With the help of @Axel I was able to fix the issue.

After digging into the Attributes and comparing the settings of the SKU since I could search by that and the settings of Name and Desc. I noticed a few differences.

here is what the SKU was set to

Here is what name was set to before I changed it

This is what I changed Name to

After that I re-indexed the site and then cleared the cache manually via ftp var/cache and deleted all folders in the cache then refreshed the site and tried to search and sure enough it works now.

Thank you Axel for pointing me in the right direction.

I also hope this helps anyone else having an issue with the search.

You can set the cron to update on Schedule.

This way, thanks to the mview pattern, Magento will reindex only the entity_ids which need to be reindexed. (check mview_state and catalogsearch_fulltext_cl tables)

You need to think about incremental update and not full update.

I have the same problem with my customer. It takes 8 minutes to full reindex by stores, I have 31 stores so ...

I am trying to reindex each store in parallel.

Did you find another solution ?