Page not showing up in search

[MarcC]

Using the default search.inc file, I'm unable to get a result for "About" in a site that has a page called "About Us". Other pages seem to show up just fine via title search. Any ideas? Thanks!

[renobird]

You've checked all the obvious things like the page being hidden or unpublished I assume — and the page is actually visible on the site?

What happens if you change the title, will the new title show in the search?

[MarcC]

Thanks Tom--yeah, I changed the title to "Abouttesting Us" and a search for "abouttesting" worked great. As soon as I changed it back to "About Us", no more results for "about". The page is visible on the site and is not hidden or unpublished.

[renobird]

very strange. I'll see if I can recreate that here.

[MarcC]

Thanks, Tom. I tried the same search on a site I built some time ago:

http://www.stevezuieback.com/search/?q=About

Different server, same results. Kind of weird.

[horst]

DatabaseStopwords.php

and https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/blob/master/wire/core/DatabaseStopwords.php#L83

Maybe something like:

DatabaseStopwords::remove("about");

in the config.php or on top of a / the search.php ?

Edited February 26, 2015 by horst

[MarcC]

Ah ha ha. Thanks Horst, that makes complete sense. I should clarify that I'm only asking about this because a client was "trying the search tool" and was curious about how it's working. I will explain stop words if it comes up again. And if we really, really need "about" removed, now I know how to! Thanks again.