I've been looking all over and I cannot find an answer to this one.

I cannot get my search to work on my site. I checked the search_index table, and it looks like key words are being indexed properly, however, there are some things I noticed which may or may not have something to do with this problem....

- The search_node_links table is empty (Is this where my results are generated from?)
- Cron is being difficult. I finally configured my cronjob to execute, however it keeps giving the following error when cron runs as scheduled....

"Looking up www.ultimategearreview.com
Making HTTP connection to www.ultimategearreview.com
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
Can't Access `http://www.ultimategearreview.com/cron.php'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile"

- Also, cron run fails if I try to run it manually, and watchdog gives me an error stating that cron has been running for more than an hour.

Even with these apparent cron errors, it appears that the site is getting indexed, at least to the point of adding keywords to the search_index table.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong, or possibly how I can get around this issue, perhaps with a different search module? I was thinking of maybe just using google cse for now, but I will have to wait until google gets around to indexing my site if I do that.