ODP Search Database Update?

It appears the Search Database has not been updated for nearly a month. I've searched the forums, but can't find an explanation. What I did find say it's normally updated weekly or biweekly. Is there an issue we should be aware of? Do we have an ETA for the Search Database to be refreshed? <img src="/images/icons/confused.gif" alt="" />

Technical problems have been plaguing the ODP servers for the last month (resulting in a large amount of downtime) and have only just got under control. However, due to this - several things are backlogged, the search database generation system being one of them.

Please be reassured that the Staff @ ODP are aware of this issue and are working it fix it, but several more items need to be 'cleared' before hand ("public page generation" being one of them). IIRC, Staff are concentrating on getting the RDF dumps working correctly as a matter of urgency so that users can use a data partner such as Google to search whilst the reminder of the issues are sorted.

The search database is normally generated at least once a week, but I would personally guess it won't be updated for another week to a fortnight. No "official" ETA at the moment.

Past experience tells me that the search index is usually updated once an RDF dump has been generated successfully.

I wish we had control of this, but we don't. It updates when it updates.

First post, sorry if this is an obvious question but:
I understand about the search database but are the "Last Update...edit" notices at the very bottom of the pages currently updated? I see some October 22 dates, but none after that. Thanks.

[Sorry, misundertood the question, thanks dfy.]

While attempting to fix the search index problem (and some underlying technical issues), public page regeneration was halted. That meant that the pages started to lag behind what the editors were working with. The regeneration queue has since been re-started, but it's still not caught up with all the changes.

The date on Business/Transportation_and_Logistics/Aviation/Organizations/ (October 29, 2002) shows that some pages have been updated recently, but not all of them. I'm afraid this is yet another area where we can counsel nothing better than patience.