# Search engine less efficient on certain terms?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-engine-less-efficient-on-certain-terms/49913
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [September 8, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-engine-less-efficient-on-certain-terms/49913 "2016-09-08T23:27:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Steven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-engine-less-efficient-on-certain-terms/49913/1 "2016-09-08T23:27:06Z")
Hi guys !
Someone on my forum reported an issue with the search engine. It doesn’t concern much terms which is a bit weird.
Let’s take the example we have [the search for _politique_](http://iunctis.fr/search?q=politique) seems to be stuck with the first three letters (POL) and don’t put the topic _Politique_ in the first result (it’s 6th), instead it’s making _Pologne_ (for Poland) more relevent.
All my “Search” options are on the default config.
(Bonus : when I used the tag emphasis on a link, the rendering doesn’t work well.)
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### Author:  [@Steven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-engine-less-efficient-on-certain-terms/49913/2 "2016-10-12T19:42:10Z")
Little update, it seems fixed. I noticed some work on the search engine lately, must be it
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-engine-less-efficient-on-certain-terms/49913/3 "2016-10-12T20:08:00Z")
Pretty sure it was the same issue. We were using the stemmer for the query terms and that was a _bad_ idea.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-engine-less-efficient-on-certain-terms/49913/4 "2016-10-12T20:15:43Z")