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Search doesn't work for simplest cases
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Description
**Your Godot version:**
4.71.
**Issue description:**
I would expect the documentation search to show me the PhysicsBody2D documentation when I search for "PhysicsBody", but only when I spell out the whole type it works. This is really frustrating and not a usable search in 2026. Most frustrating is that the search in older godot documentation versions worked perfectly, why was this changed to a significanly inferior version of search?
Searching for a specific full method name also simply doesn't work.
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I would suggest that we rollback to the previous search.
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**URL to the documentation page:**
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/
Specific page doesn't matter, it's about the search.
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Research direction
Start at https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/ and reproduce the reported searches for "PhysicsBody" and a specific full method name. Compare the current results with the older documentation search behavior described in the issue; done means partial class and method searches return the relevant documentation pages.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- godot
- Domain
- documentation, search
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100