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Exact match does not appear among search suggestions
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Description

On Meta, searching for "Wikipedia" doesn't show the actual article on Wikipedia in the suggestions.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to Meta
  2. Type "Wikipedia" in the search box

Actual result:
The Wikipedia article is not in the suggestions.

Expected result:
Wikipedia is the first suggestion.

Additional information:
Firefox 70.0.1

Screenshot:

exact-search-missing-among-suggestions.png (1,059×912 px, 176 KB)

Event Timeline

I can't seem to reproduce the issue (see screenshot). Not sure what might be the issue here. @Sebastian_Berlin-WMSE : could you confirm that this isn't a transient error?

search-on-meta.png (1,124×899 px, 223 KB)

I tried and now it works for me too, both logged out and with the old Vector skin like in the original screenshot. I guess something was fixed in the last five years🙂