Well, just some initial help before someone much, much smarter than me comes along.

There are probably a dozen threads on search problems on the first couple pages of the forum here - and most of them have some really excellent advice on where to start doing things to try to get your searches working.

You're not the only one having problems though. I only just started getting my searches back, and I think it was something as simple as going back and re-downloading Java 6 version 11, I think it was.

But there's lots better advice already posted here if you want to get a start. BTW, you're going to get asked about what your OS is, firewall, etc. I think there's a link at the top of the forum that lists all the stuff you should post for the best help.