# New user tutorial search for "capybara" finds nothing

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**Created:** [August 29, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-tutorial-search-for-capybara-finds-nothing/237494 "2022-08-29T16:33:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimDolores](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/timdolores/32/108596_2.png) [@TimDolores](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TimDolores)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-tutorial-search-for-capybara-finds-nothing/237494/1 "2022-08-29T16:33:20Z")

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How to repeat:

1. Go to a hosted Discourse instance, and sign up as a new user. I signed up at [internals.rust-lang.org](http://internals.rust-lang.org).

2. Follow the “Greetings!” new user on-boarding tutorial from @discobot.

3. Message #15 in the tutorial topic will say:

> [@On another topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/17259/15):
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> _psst_ … I’ve hidden a surprise in this topic. If you’re up for the challenge, **select the search icon**
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> ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/d/3d13d028ac36ade7a3802f7c7e0fad1a913a5203.png) at the top right ↗ to search for it.
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> Try searching for the term “capy​bara” in this topic

1. Click the search icon, type _capybara_ into the box, and click “ **capybara** in this topic” under the search input box.

2. The result is “No results found.”. I expect two messages to be found (#15, where the text “Try searching for the term “capybara” in this topic” is written, and the earlier message that has the capybara photo).

3. Searching for other terms _does_ work. Searching the topic for “nasty”, for example, returns two posts.

4. The word “capybara” _is found_ “in all topics and posts”. So it can be indexed.

5. I found another report of this problem from May 2017: [Search broken in internals forums - meta - Rust Internals](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/search-broken-in-internals-forums/5266) So I don’t think it’s a new problem, or unique to my situation.

I think this is severity 3; while it only affects a small number of users and is a mere cosmetic issue, it happens to a brand new user and leaves the impression that the search function is unreliable or the site is poorly maintained.

Kind regards,

Tim

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