# Search doesn't work properly with a specific word
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-doesnt-work-properly-with-a-specific-word/51195
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [October 6, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-doesnt-work-properly-with-a-specific-word/51195 "2016-10-06T22:00:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-doesnt-work-properly-with-a-specific-word/51195/1 "2016-10-06T22:00:33Z")
Today (and few days ago) I tried to search here on Meta the word “`canned`” (for canned replies plugin) but the results is always ` No results found.`
Same results searching “`Canned`” or even “`canned replies`”.
[https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/9/09104055d65eff6bf1190b4eb825c9a470e0656a.mp4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/9/09104055d65eff6bf1190b4eb825c9a470e0656a.mp4)
This is driving me crazy because on my forum (v1.7.0.beta5 +45) it works:
[https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/b/db317a1e65bd0a80f3451e55d55227c5f93cf107.mp4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/b/db317a1e65bd0a80f3451e55d55227c5f93cf107.mp4)
Meta doesn’t ❤ this word, why?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-doesnt-work-properly-with-a-specific-word/51195/2 "2016-10-06T22:54:48Z")
> [@Trash](#):
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> Meta doesn’t ❤ this word, why?
Maybe because the topic started off in “uncategorized”?
EDIT
Looks like something is wrong, Google finds plenty
> **[Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ameta.discourse.org%20canned)**
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-doesnt-work-properly-with-a-specific-word/51195/3 "2016-10-06T23:06:32Z")
Looks like the search term was `canned`.
Thank you all, I will walk myself out.
will have a look, this is odd
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-doesnt-work-properly-with-a-specific-word/51195/4 "2016-10-06T23:36:33Z")
OK, this is what is happening… “canned” is being stemmed to “can” and indexed as “can”, later on we perform a `TO_TSQUERY` on the stemmed word “can” instead of “canned” and … `can` happens to be a stopword so it gets zero results.
The fix is to stop stemming the search term, will sort it out.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-doesnt-work-properly-with-a-specific-word/51195/5 "2016-10-07T00:35:20Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> “canned” is being stemmed to “can”
This is not even _correct_
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-doesnt-work-properly-with-a-specific-word/51195/6 "2016-10-07T00:45:35Z")
Welcome to snowball
> **[Demo - Snowball](https://snowballstem.org/demo.html)**
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-doesnt-work-properly-with-a-specific-word/51195/7 "2016-10-07T03:59:33Z")
I fixed this here:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/647ee46edff789634a34dc0a406d19d8a50f21cd](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/647ee46edff789634a34dc0a406d19d8a50f21cd)
Longer term it may make sense to shift all the stemming into ruby and use a simple fulltext index.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-doesnt-work-properly-with-a-specific-word/51195/8 "2016-10-07T03:59:35Z")