RH 9 Search Ignores Some Words in Topic Title

RoboHelp 9.0.0.228/Server 9
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RH 9 Server reports indicates that end-users are not finding topics using keywords "kaiser" and "backorder." There are topics that contain these words and the words are actually included in each of the topic titles.
I checked the following:
Project settings. These words are not on stop list nor the ignore list.
Topic properties. The "exclude from search" box is not checked.
FYI - project was upgraded from RH x5 to RH 9.
Any suggestions on resolving this issue?
Thank you,
Eva

Hi Eva.
What happens if you search for those keywords when you launch the help via the Web Administrator? If they don't show up there, try generating webhelp output and seeing if they show in that. If they do, I'd delete the output from the server and republish to make sure you have an absolutely clean search database.
If none of this works, can you see if there is some rhyme or reason behind this. For example are all the unfound search terms from one RH project? What other search terms in those projects do work? That sort of thing.
The RoboColum(n)
@robocolumn
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