diff --git a/app/services/search/global_service.rb b/app/services/search/global_service.rb
index 2121451118..d213e1375e 100644
--- a/app/services/search/global_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/search/global_service.rb
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ module Search
         projects: [],
         merge_requests: [],
         issues: [],
+        notes: [],
         total_results: 0,
       }
     end
diff --git a/app/services/search/project_service.rb b/app/services/search/project_service.rb
index 3ebaafc752..493dee95f9 100644
--- a/app/services/search/project_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/search/project_service.rb
@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ module Search
         result[:total_results] = blobs.total_count
       else
         result[:merge_requests] = project.merge_requests.search(query).order('updated_at DESC').limit(20)
-        result[:issues] = project.issues.search(query).order('updated_at DESC').limit(20)
-        result[:total_results] = %w(issues merge_requests).sum { |items| result[items.to_sym].size }
+        result[:issues] = project.issues.where("title like :query OR description like :query ", query: "%#{query}%").order('updated_at DESC').limit(20)
+        result[:notes] = Note.where(noteable_type: 'issue').where(project_id: project.id).where("note like :query", query: "%#{query}%").order('updated_at DESC').limit(20)
+        result[:total_results] = %w(issues merge_requests notes).sum { |items| result[items.to_sym].size }
       end
 
       result
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ module Search
         merge_requests: [],
         issues: [],
         blobs: [],
+        notes: [],
         total_results: 0,
       }
     end
diff --git a/app/views/search/_project_results.html.haml b/app/views/search/_project_results.html.haml
index f285bda573..af3b97879c 100644
--- a/app/views/search/_project_results.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/search/_project_results.html.haml
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@
     %ul.bordered-list
       = render partial: "search/results/merge_request", collection: @search_results[:merge_requests]
       = render partial: "search/results/issue", collection: @search_results[:issues]
+      = render partial: "search/results/note", collection: @search_results[:notes]
diff --git a/app/views/search/results/_note.html.haml b/app/views/search/results/_note.html.haml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..97e892bdd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/search/results/_note.html.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+%li
+  note on issue:
+  = link_to [note.project, note.noteable] do
+    %span ##{note.noteable.iid}
+    %strong.term
+      = truncate note.noteable.title, length: 50
+  %span.light (#{note.project.name_with_namespace})
+  - if note.noteable.closed?
+    %span.label Closed