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Zing Search engine does not respect underscore# Zing Search engine does not respect underscore

June 14, 2018 [servicenow](/tags/servicenow/)

  Enable AI AnimationI opened a HI ticket about this and they communicated that the global text search does not respect more non-alphanumeric characters.

It turns out that the keyword search doesn’t respect `_` characters.

Meaning if you search for “`this_custom_word`” and you expect to find results, if one of those words is on the Stop list tables (`ts_index_stop`, and `ts_stop`). It may not show up.

Something HI made me aware of. I askd if they have other delimiters, but they said `_` and space are delimiters.

If I get more information I’ll update this.

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