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title: "markata search"
description: "A side effect of markata-didyoumean is that we are able to implement some rudimentary search based on slug, title, tags, and description."
date: 2025-01-30
published: true
tags:
  - python
  - markata
template: blog-post
---


A side effect of <a href="/markata-didyoumean/" class="wikilink" data-title="Markata DidYouMean" data-description="Coming in Markata 0.9.1 is far better documentation. i.e. Documentation that actually exists for everything. As part of poking around I realized that I often..." data-date="2025-01-29">Markata DidYouMean</a> is that we are able to implement some
rudimentary search based on slug, title, tags, and description.

![screenshot-2025-01-31T14-50-00-094Z.png](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/50cfa8dc-9d46-4f02-877b-688fa5510a83.png){.more-cinematic}

I made a video of the early work on using this side effect to search for content on markata.dev.

![Replay markata-search-1.mp4](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/fd677374-5ef1-41c7-8845-6de0e10f224b.mp4)

This was first implemented to solve 404 pages giving users a way to try to find
the page that they tried to access.  But it turned out to be a decent way to
search through the docs.