# Search not finding topics by exact title words

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-not-finding-topics-by-exact-title-words/399693
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** search
**Created:** [April 1, 2026, 12:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-not-finding-topics-by-exact-title-words/399693 "2026-04-01T12:05:00Z")
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#### Post date: [April 1, 2026, 12:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-not-finding-topics-by-exact-title-words/399693/1 "2026-04-01T12:05:00Z")

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Hi,

On my Discourse forum, search is not returning results even when searching for exact words from topic titles.

Example: Topic title contains “Swimming” but searching “swim” or “swimming” returns no results.

Forum is multilingual (EN, RU, DE, PT). Default locale is English.

Also getting 500 error when AI semantic search (embeddings) is enabled with OpenAI text-embedding-3-large.

Any help appreciated.

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