the search engine sucks! or?

I did a search on all messages posted between 29 Sept and 30 Nov and had no hits? Searching on ALL messages mean that I did not specify any search criteria! Or am I making some silly mistake???

See below!

Message Index

Search Results

Messages Posted Between
29 September 2001 and 30 November 2001
0 of 2399 Messages Displayed (Reversed Chronological Listing)

All Messages in Date Range

No messages matched your search criteria! Please try again....

Yep....

The messages get archived every two weeks.
Check the 2001 archive.

Actually the search is pretty good

Rob.