# Search pulling up entries missing search items

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**Created:** [April 21, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-pulling-up-entries-missing-search-items/353578 "2006-04-21T03:48:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-pulling-up-entries-missing-search-items/353578/1 "2006-04-21T03:48:27Z")

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I did a board search for \*Tiesto \* and I got two recent threads that had no Tiesto located anywhere.  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=358282&highlight=Tiesto](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=358282&highlight=Tiesto)

and

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=366293&highlight=Tiesto](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=366293&highlight=Tiesto)

It’s not a big deal as I found plenty of other threads, but I’m curious as to why that might happen. Was there once a post with the text \*Tiesto \* in it, but it was deleted for some reason?

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**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-pulling-up-entries-missing-search-items/353578/2 "2006-04-21T04:54:01Z")

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Both threads do have the word _Tiësto_ however (and both times it’s **Yookeroo** who posted it).

> [@Yookeroo](#):
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> Wasn’t Richie Hawtin supposed to be DJing (like Tiësto did in Greece)? I thought I read that somewhere.

> [@Yookeroo](#):
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> I don’t think there’s any delay in what they’re listening to over the headphones. They’re listening to the next track in order to time it right (matching the beats).
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> There’s a difference between DJing (Fatboy) and performing live (Chemical Brothers…although they’ve done the DJ thing too). Although, with DJs starting to use computers to mix, it’s becoming less black & white. And then there’s the who Tiësto In Concert thing, that was some sort of multimedia extravaganza.
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> Not sure exactly what the Chemical Brothers are doing. But they’re worth seeing live. They do make the button pushing and knob twirling interesting. Great visuals.

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**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-pulling-up-entries-missing-search-items/353578/3 "2006-04-21T12:43:36Z")

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It looks like the searching engine is able to match up “Tiesto” with “Tiësto” (note the umlaut(?) over the E) but the highlight engine isn’t.

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**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-pulling-up-entries-missing-search-items/353578/4 "2006-04-21T18:43:31Z")

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It looks that way. I guess I’m spoiled by the red highlighting.