It’d be really nice to have the guidelines come up from the first-class search box when folks naturally want to find guidance about the site itself. For example, the phrase “well-lighted place” is a fairly unique phrase in the guidelines here, but doesn’t come up with a search:
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Hi 
It’s because by default, the FAQ/Guidelines topic is in #staff, a restricted category.
If you move the topic to a public category, it will appear in the search for everyone.
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I believe it’s also the fact that /guidelines is not a topic but a static page, hence not showing up in search results.
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Yeah, but either way it seems quite useful to make sure that (and the other about pages, if there are any) are involved in search somehow.
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That is possible by moving those topics to a public category, isn’t it?
I kind of like that they are not included here on Meta. If I search for ‘flag’ because I want to learn how it works in Discourse, the rules of this forum are not what I need. It’s like I want to search the picture, not the frame around it.
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