They appear to be listed sorted by reverse node_id, but I seriously doubt they are searched that way. In SQL terms, I think there's one of 
   SELECT ... LIMIT 50

   SELECT ... ORDER BY node_id LIMIT 50

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with perhaps a sort done in Perl, but not 
   SELECT ... ORDER BY node_id DESC LIMIT 50

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which in that case would likely fix it. (I'm not pmdev, so I have no access to the actual source, so I'm just guessing.)

For example, a search for List of Lists shows 128632 at the top, and 17802 at the bottom. That's nowhere near the 350865 for the node (list of lists (LOL)) I was actually looking for.

As an aside, note that my search term is actually part of the node title, which is not the case for any of the results shown.

In reply to Re(2): Name clashes in lookup by title by bart
in thread Name clashes in lookup by title by bart

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