Daniel Barrett wrote:
> After using Special:Import to import about 200 articles, I discovered
> that none of these articles appear in search results. For example, if
> an imported article is titled "Banana milkshake", and you search for
> "Banana", the Page Title Matches do NOT include "Banana milkshake."
> Additionally, the AJAX auto-suggest feature (mwsuggest) does not
> display "Banana milkshake" when you type "Banana milk".
> 
> I was able to fix the search problem by running
> maintenance/rebuildtextindex.php and bouncing mysqld and httpd.
> However, it did not fix the mwsuggest problem. Neither did
> maintenance/updateSearchIndex.php, nor
> extensions/TitleKey/rebuildTitleKeys.php.
> 
> Then, on a whim, I tried maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php.  And
> voila, mwsuggest is fixed.
> 
> Can anyone explain why this worked?

Offhand I'd guess short-term HTTP caching of the OpenSearch suggestion 
responses. After poking a few other things, the old entries expired from 
the browser cache and your new results were correct due to 
rebuildTitleKeys.php.

-- brion

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