"This Site:" Search not working or giving any results

So for the past 2 months I was absolutely boggled with an issue that I had. The "This Site:" search was not working for me at all. I created a separate search site and those searches were fine, people search was fine but "This Site:" search scope was not working at all.

I looked around, saw many individuals that had this issue and various solutions that I tried but didn't work for me. I didn't really want to go ahead and create a new SSP etc etc. When I did find a solution it was quite simple to begin with so here goes:

Web application/IIS settings:


Short name for intranet: "http://intranet"
FQDN: "http://intranet.company.com"

IIS:
port 80; host header - intranet

AAM (Alternet Access Mapping):
Internal URL Zone Public URL for Zone
http://intranet Default http://intranet
http://intranet.company.com Internet http://intranet.company.com

So I went to my SSP> Search Settings> Content sources and edit the content source. (I only have 1)

And these are the addresses I put in there:

http://intranet/
sps3://intranet/

Apart from this I don't have any crawl rules setup at all. You can run a full crawl after this and see if it gives you search results when you use "This Site:" search on any of the sites in the site collection(s).

SharePoint Crawl Paused Issue/Error

I went into Search Settings to begin a full crawl but I got a pop up saying:

“the crawl has been paused by search system while a new query server is added. after the new query server is online, the crawl will be resumed”

After mucking around a bit I just did an IIS reset in CMD:
iisreset /noforce

Tried to begin the crawl again and it worked!