# Search function issue
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 21, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274 "2019-05-21T03:02:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@nujabes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nujabes)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274/1 "2019-05-21T03:02:09Z")
I create a dictionary using Discourse.
Using a search function that Discourse has, you can search whatever words my site has other than the following “give.”
You cannot search only “give” somehow.
Please help me solve this.
> **[KOTOBA](https://kotoba.wiki/t/give/1255)**
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> 【自動詞】 ものを与える 【他動詞】 あげる 提供する 授ける (用例)I'd like to give this tiny flower to you. 出典 pixabay
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### Author:  [@csmu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/csmu)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274/2 "2019-05-21T03:57:13Z")
You can search for give on meta.
[https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=give](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=give)
I tried my own site and I can search for ‘give’/
Have you tried searching on other four letter words … like ‘work’,‘save’ maybe.
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### Author:  [@nujabes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nujabes)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274/3 "2019-05-21T03:59:20Z")
Nope, I mean that the problem occurs on my site, [https://kotoba.wiki/](https://kotoba.wiki/)
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### Author:  [@csmu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/csmu)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274/4 "2019-05-21T04:03:03Z")
Try looking at your settings.
Is your min search term length less or equal to 4?
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### Author:  [@nujabes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nujabes)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274/5 "2019-05-21T04:08:13Z")
Thanks for your suggestion. Mine is 2. So, “Give” should show up.
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### Author:  [@traceymoko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/traceymoko)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274/6 "2019-05-21T04:40:09Z")
Hmm I remember reading about stop words somewhere
> [@No search results are shown for stopwords](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-search-results-are-shown-for-stopwords/46541/4):
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> Those are “stop” words Stop words are words that are very common, appear in almost every document, and have no discrimination value. Therefore, they can be ignored in the context of full text searching. For example, every English text contains words like a and the, so it is useless to store them in an index. However, stop words do affect the positions in tsvector, which in turn affect ranking:
I’m not sure about the word ‘give’, but some common English words like ‘a’ and ‘the’ are usually ignored during search. There’s more discussion in that topic but I don’t know if there’s an easy way to fix it.
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### Author:  [@Chaboi\_3000](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chaboi_3000)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 11:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274/7 "2019-05-21T11:21:45Z")
You might be able to “kinda” bypass this by searching:
“giv”“e” or “giv”
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### Author:  [@csmu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/csmu)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274/8 "2019-05-21T20:52:36Z")
giv works …
> **[KOTOBA](https://kotoba.wiki/search?q=giv)**
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> 英単語の意味を画像イメージで直感的に理解できます。ネイティヴスピーカーによる生の発音や語源のタグで効果的かつ楽しく学習できます。
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### Author:  [@nujabes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nujabes)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274/9 "2019-05-22T01:47:12Z")
Thanks for your information. I will consider whether I should ask the customization.😂
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274/11 "2022-10-06T18:13:38Z")