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a-msglistThe message-list screen, except what's label:a-contentThe message-list screen, except what's label:a-contentlaunch feedbackThings users specifically asked for upon launchThings users specifically asked for upon launch
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Zulip search ignores some very common words ("stopwords"), like "the" or "a". In particular, if you try a search query where all your query words are stopwords, there will be no results.
The web app gives some explicit feedback when this happens:
No search results.
Common words were excluded from your search:
the

stopword and another word, but no results:
No search results.
Common words were excluded from your search:
theklsfjakldfj

No search results.

We should do something similar. In email, a user writes:
On the desktop, if you search for "the", it tells you this happened. On the app, it doesn't. I was very confused why "test" returned seemingly several thousand messages whereas "that" returned zero.
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