# Issue with search system on julialang.org?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-with-search-system-on-julialang-org/28908>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [September 18, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-with-search-system-on-julialang-org/28908 "2019-09-18T18:30:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![klaff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/klaff/32/7637_2.png) [@klaff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/klaff)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-with-search-system-on-julialang-org/28908/1 "2019-09-18T18:30:09Z")

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I’m seeing a weird behavior when searching the docs. I was looking for stuff on generator expressions.

This seems to work okay.

 ![clip1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/5/956a834df46f325f322ba22d99eaf59aa5aba704.png)

But if I type one more character I get

 ![clip2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/f/5fec682b584fbbd90d87bba327c4e78177de6455.png)  
which isn’t useful.

And if I type a few more I get this (which is worse than zero results).

 ![clip3](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/d/c/dc3046d7001d9e745c63f829460b90d97622ab8d.png)

These are from Firefox but Chrome did the same thing for me.

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**Author:** ![klaff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/klaff/32/7637_2.png) [@klaff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/klaff)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-with-search-system-on-julialang-org/28908/2 "2019-09-27T01:12:16Z")

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This still occurs. Anyone know the appropriate place to log an issue for the website?

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-with-search-system-on-julialang-org/28908/3 "2019-09-27T04:28:14Z")

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Perhaps

[https://github.com/JuliaLang/www.julialang.org](https://github.com/JuliaLang/www.julialang.org)

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**Author:** ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-with-search-system-on-julialang-org/28908/4 "2019-09-27T08:13:54Z")

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Most issues regarding search are raised at [Documenter.jl](https://github.com/JuliaDocs/Documenter.jl/issues). And, if you [search this Discourse](https://discourse.julialang.org/search?q=document%20search) you’ll see that the documentation search issues have been encountered before. I don’t know what the technical problems are (overly-fuzzy searching was one issue, if I remember correctly), and it’s often the case that you don’t get any matches or get far too many. But search is a difficult problem…

I understand that the solution will eventually be the search tool at [pkg.julialang.org](https://pkg.julialang.org/docs/), which is currently under construction, but working quite well for some (but not all) packages already. (A search for “generators” gives many hits, but at first glance I couldn’t see the [obvious result](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/arrays/#Generator-Expressions-1) for the Julia manual… ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯ )