# False positives when searching documentations
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/false-positives-when-searching-documentations/124793
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** documentation
**Created:** [January 15, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/false-positives-when-searching-documentations/124793 "2025-01-15T14:28:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@fgerick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fgerick)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/false-positives-when-searching-documentations/124793/1 "2025-01-15T14:28:05Z")
Hi, I have encountered this a few times already (without remembering other references):
I just searched for “thread” in the [Optimizations.jl documentation](https://docs.sciml.ai/Optimization/stable/), giving two results:
However, after clicking on the first page I find that there is no mention of “thread” on this page:
Is this a known bug or what is happening here? Is this something everyone encounters sometimes?
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### Author:  [@fgerick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fgerick)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/false-positives-when-searching-documentations/124793/2 "2025-07-17T12:25:24Z")
I keep coming across this problem in random package documentations, does anyone know what is going on?
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/false-positives-when-searching-documentations/124793/3 "2025-07-17T14:26:41Z")
I reported this a while ago as a bug. I can’t remember the issue number, from the top of my head.
Edit: [Overly eager search-result reporting · Issue #48748 · JuliaLang/julia](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/48748)
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### Author:  [@digital\_carver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/digital_carver)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/false-positives-when-searching-documentations/124793/4 "2025-07-17T23:08:24Z")
That issue was closed as a duplicate of another issue (on the Documenter repo), but that one doesn’t have any mention of this particular issue: a search term showing supposed results that don’t actually contain the term. It only has multiple cases of the opposite, i.e. a search term being present in the page but not showing up in the results. @fgerick it’s worth adding the Optimizations.jl “threads” case (and any other similar instances you can remember in other docs) as a comment on the [Documenter issue](https://github.com/JuliaDocs/Documenter.jl/issues/1457) to make sure those are also tested for.
As seen towards the end of that thread, there is a PR that’s intended to fix issues related to search terms:
but it’s not clear whether it fixes this particular issue. It’s a pretty bizarre issue, the only cause I can think of for it is that there is some fuzzy search that’s being overly liberal, and matching eg. “three” with “thread”. That’s just a conjecture though, it’s worth bringing up on Github and maybe in the Slack `#documentation` channel.
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/false-positives-when-searching-documentations/124793/5 "2025-07-18T00:35:43Z")
The fuzzy search is exceedingly eager. For instance, my name is apparently all over the manual:
