To carry out this test you will need a Solr search engine installed for your server to use. [There are some instructions on https://docs.moodle.org/37/en/Global_search - it involves installing a PHP extension and the Solr software itself.] Configure your server to use the Solr search engine, instead of the simple search (verify the setting under admin / plugins / search / manage global search). If you have a lot of content on your server, make sure that search indexing is up to date. Or use a different test server that doesn't have much content! Create a new Page activity in a course that you are enrolled on. Set the name to anything, leave the description blank, and set the content to the following, remembering to make the second special word italic: This is thoroughly sprooglefronked and bleepitydibbled but only one of those words will be found. Run search indexing, for example by going to the Admin / Server / Scheduled tasks page and clicking Run now next to Global search indexing . Wait for indexing to complete. Using the search icon in the top bar, search for sprooglefronked . EXPECTED: Your page should appear in the results. (This already worked.) Now search for bleepitydibbled . EXPECTED: The page should also appear in the results. BEFORE FIX: There were no results for this search.