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Drupal - Enable Search Box in four steps and under two minutes

I have always used Google Custom Search to search my websites. Yesterday though, I felt I wanted to test Drupal Search Box. Thinking it would be very obvious, I enabled the search module in "admin/build/modules/list" and configured it in "/admin/settings/search". Confident I had configured the module properly, I tested the search box but nothing came out. A quick Google Search said that I needed to fix user permissions. I then went to "admin/user/permissions" and gave permission to anonymous and authenticated users. Returning to search however did not return results once again! Thinking Drupal fooled me again, I remembered that my cron module was not setup properly. Running the cron manually fixed the job and the search results came out happily!