Question

As seen on SearchDoesNotWork, the very last word of a file will not be found by a backlink unless there are following characters. This can cause a problem for simple categorization using CategoryXyzzy-type tags.

Apologies in advance for the awkward grammar of the tail sentance and the mucked-up formatting of this FAQ, but the problem isn't demonstrable without the last word. I updated the Sandbox link to the unmentionable last word to provide a search equivalent to a backlink search that really should find this document. As long as the last word in this topic is not followed by any characters, that search will fail.

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Answer

This seems to be discussed and solved in the BacklinksSearchDoesNotWork bug work.

-- DavidForrest - 30 Mar 2005

This should now be solved in the DEVELOP branch.

-- ArthurClemens - 01 Apr 2005

This is still not fixed in the current implementation.

-- DavidForrest - 11 May 2006

For example, if the last word of this particular topic ends with this sentance without following characters, backlinks won't work to here from XyzzyXyzzyTest