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Search page does not work correctly or is at least not very user friendly
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

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What happens?:
The results are very unusable for a user. The qid result doesn't say anything about the article.
Most users might search for the name like Jupiter and that gives you zero results, although there is an article about Jupiter and with content containing the word Jupiter

What should have happened instead?:

  • Users should also be able to search by label and find existing articles
  • Results should clearly indicate what the article is (not just QIDs)

Additional notes
Label search does work in:

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):