# Search prioritisation not working as expected
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-prioritisation-not-working-as-expected/184972
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 31, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-prioritisation-not-working-as-expected/184972 "2021-03-31T12:18:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@markwilkin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markwilkin)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-prioritisation-not-working-as-expected/184972/1 "2021-03-31T12:18:19Z")
On [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) I search for **Accessibility** and get these results
[https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=accessibility](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=accessibility)
The first relevant results are down at positions 13 and 16 and the majority of results are for the word **Access** instead.
Now if I search for **“Accessibility”** including the speech marks I get the search I’m looking for.
[https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=%22accessibility%22](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=%22accessibility%22)
I also [searched on my own forum the word Musical](https://forums.profounddecisions.co.uk/search?q=musical) to try to reproduce and that result is much more what I’d expect. Not sure if it’s just specific for this sites corpus or not.
I was just searching for this today and it struck me as not ideal behavior, so here’s a report.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-prioritisation-not-working-as-expected/184972/2 "2021-03-31T21:23:07Z")
I’ve reported the same exact issue with accessibility/access to the team internally. Apparently it’s due to our search’s stemmer, which is fairly basic… more on stemming:
> **[Stemming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming)**
>
> In linguistic morphology and information retrieval, stemming is the process of reducing inflected (or sometimes derived) words to their word stem, base or root form—generally a written word form. The stem need not be identical to the morphological root of the word; it is usually sufficient that related words map to the same stem, even if this stem is not in itself a valid root. Algorithms for stemming have been studied in computer science since the 1960s. Many search engines treat words with the ...
We’d like to make our stemming more intelligent at some point in the future, but we don’t have that work scheduled yet.