For example search it, it:, “it, it:”, “it, it:”,, "it, it:", or it, it:”. It does not bring up this post although it does have “it, it:”, in it. [1] Also, when you press the search button, quotes “” get transformed to "". I don’t like this experience, don’t know if it’s a bug. Platform: Edge on An…

I think it is a stop word that is excluded from search. Have you tried to reproduce with a word that is not on that list to verify that this is about punctation? Are specific terms ignored from searches? - #5 by codinghorror

I can’t reproduce it anymore in other form. Maybe the forum I saw the problem on has outdated Discourse.

Actually I think I can reproduce again, try finding this post by searching we don't And searching “just-use-interface{}/object; we don’t need generics” or "just-use- interface{} / object ; we don't need generics" can’t find it But searching just-use- interface{} / object ; we don't need generics c…

Yes, this is correct… you can’t search for it at all… if you try it here you get no results. Words that are likely to appear an extreme number of times (I, the, a, pronouns, etc) are excluded from indexing because they appear too often to provide meaningful differentiation. [图片] sk-or-v1-content…

I found it very difficult to find the topics I was searching for, even with trivial words. It is something named before, and there was a Typesense integration experiment years ago. I wonder if there are actual plans to improve the Discourse search function? It is one of the most featured tools, and…

Maybe add a “plain text search” option? which disables gotchas like "" quotes

And I’m curious is there a technical reason to exclude we, don’t (don, t) from being indexed for search? Because they’re too common?

[图片] sk-or-v1-contents: Because they’re too common? yeah exactly 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…

Though I sense this is deprioritized, here’s an idea of a better UX from Zulip: show the ignored words [Zulip shows the word "from" being ignored when searching for "from"]

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Moin 2026 年8 月 19 日 12:03 2

我认为 it 是一个在搜索中被排除的停用词。你是否尝试过用一个不在该列表中的单词来复现这个问题，以确认这是否与标点符号有关？

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