# Search does not find 06423048

**URL:** <http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/search-does-not-find-06423048/689>\
**Category:** API Issues\
**Created:** [August 1, 2016, 10:33am UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/search-does-not-find-06423048/689 "2016-08-01T10:33:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![csmith](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/csmith/32/8_2.png) [@csmith](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/csmith)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](http://forum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/search-does-not-find-06423048/689/12 "2016-08-02T16:42:49Z")

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> [@hindits](#):
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> Where I used to get a manageable number of results back, I know get (in some cases) millions of results. It seems to be matching on individual words as opposed to the whole string?
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> The best match seems to come up first tho which is better than before.

**See the following topic update for details on the search result enhancements:**

> [@Search Enhancements - Change Notice](http://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/search-enhancements-release-notice/682/3):
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> The search indexing has been completely redesigned to ensure that the most appropriate results are returned first. As part of this it was necessary to build in some intelligent algorithms, so that you don’t have to be quite so specific, accurate, or get the left-to-right’ness correct to find the company or officer you are looking for. Previously, searching was causing a lot of customer difficulty, and needed addressing. The upshot is that we unavoidably get more matches, but the likelihood that…

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