--- /Users/robert/Desktop/drupal/modules/search.module	2005-08-22 03:12:05.000000000 +0200
+++ /Users/robert/Desktop/search.module	2005-08-22 03:17:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
       $wordlist = $node['text1'] .' '. $node['text2'];
 
       // Strip heaps of stuff out of it.
-      $wordlist = preg_replace("'<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>'si", '', $wordlist);
+      $wordlist = preg_replace("'<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>'si", ' ', $wordlist);
 
       // Remove punctuation/special characters (same rule as do_search()).
       $wordlist = preg_replace("'(!|%|,|:|;|\(|\)|\&|\"|\'|\.|-|\/|\?|\\\)'", '', $wordlist);