# Searching results not displaying expected topics
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-results-not-displaying-expected-topics/44209
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 13, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-results-not-displaying-expected-topics/44209 "2016-05-13T19:26:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-results-not-displaying-expected-topics/44209/1 "2016-05-13T19:26:34Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Missing English text `[en.admin.embedding.embed_classname_whitelist]`](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-english-text-en-admin-embedding-embed-classname-whitelist/44198/3):
> [@Missing English text \`\[en.admin.embedding.embed\_classname\_whitelist\]\`](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-english-text-en-admin-embedding-embed-classname-whitelist/44198/3):
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> My search-fu has failed me
I was expecting a search for `embed_classname_whitelist` to return results that mentioned `[en.admin.embedding.embed_classname_whitelist]`.
Whilst this might just be because of word-break characters `.` and `]` they are still word-break characters and the results are still unexpected.
## Steps to reproduce
1. Search meta for `embed_classname_whitelist`
## Expected result
Search results should include the following topics:
- [https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-wrong-port-in-postmessage/39414](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-wrong-port-in-postmessage/39414)
- [Missing [en.admin.embedding.embed\_classname\_whitelist] translate](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-en-admin-embedding-embed-classname-whitelist-translate/42717)
- [Missing English text `[en.admin.embedding.embed_classname_whitelist]`](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-english-text-en-admin-embedding-embed-classname-whitelist/44198)
## Actual result
Currently the results are a single result, linking to this topic:
- [https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-wrong-port-in-postmessage/39414](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-wrong-port-in-postmessage/39414)
## Additional Notes
Searching for `en.admin.embedding.embed_classname_whitelist` results in the expected results:
And searching for `admin.embedding.embed_classname_whitelist` returns (an unexpected) zero results:
Although all of these results might include this topic after submitting this topic.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-results-not-displaying-expected-topics/44209/2 "2016-05-13T19:30:25Z")
This is also a dupe, has been raised before. Has to do with “programmery” characters interfering with the way “words” are formed in the Postgres search indexes.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-results-not-displaying-expected-topics/44209/3 "2016-05-13T19:36:42Z")
Could you kindly point me at the topic?
I can’t seem to find it.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-results-not-displaying-expected-topics/44209/4 "2016-05-13T19:38:57Z")
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-text-search-and-words-delimited-by-punctuation/15481](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-text-search-and-words-delimited-by-punctuation/15481)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-results-not-displaying-expected-topics/44209/5 "2016-05-13T19:39:06Z")
I searched for this
`@sam stemmer order:latest`
and got
> [@Discourse's internal search does not find the phrase «PagedownCustom», but Google does](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-internal-search-does-not-find-the-phrase-pagedowncustom-but-google-does/35406):
>
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-results-not-displaying-expected-topics/44209/6 "2016-05-13T19:42:17Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> `@sam stemmer order:latest`
Ahhh, magic word stemmer 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-results-not-displaying-expected-topics/44209/7 "2016-05-13T19:45:08Z")
This is probably worthy of a tag to keep search-index-related topics together, but I’m too lazy to set it up.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-results-not-displaying-expected-topics/44209/8 "2016-07-25T06:27:41Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-results-not-displaying-expected-topics/44209/9 "2016-07-25T07:50:14Z")
Fixed per:
> [@Discourse's internal search does not find the phrase «PagedownCustom», but Google does](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourses-internal-search-does-not-find-the-phrase-pagedowncustom-but-google-does/35406/7):
>
> This.is.now.fixanated.via : [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/12ecf8624a97c3d33aaa3cd56851b5f1ca347c90](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/12ecf8624a97c3d33aaa3cd56851b5f1ca347c90) History is a bit tricky, but we are going to rebake at some point and pick it up, so for the time being old stuff needs an edit.