diff --git a/lib/polecat/index_searcher.rb b/lib/polecat/index_searcher.rb
index 5e41ea5..5244595 100644
--- a/lib/polecat/index_searcher.rb
+++ b/lib/polecat/index_searcher.rb
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class Polecat
     def search query
       result = []
       @reader.read.each do |doc|
-        result << doc if doc.attributes[@default_field].equals?(query)
+        result << doc if (doc.attributes[@default_field][:value] == (query))
       end
       result
     end
diff --git a/spec/index_searcher/search_spec.rb b/spec/index_searcher/search_spec.rb
index bb6cdd4..c2accda 100644
--- a/spec/index_searcher/search_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/index_searcher/search_spec.rb
@@ -2,9 +2,31 @@ require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper')
 
 describe "IndexSearcher#search" do
   let(:path) { prepare_index_dir }
+  let(:w) { Polecat::IndexWriter.new(path) }
   let(:s) { Polecat::IndexSearcher.new :path => path }
 
-  it "takes a string as an argument" do
+  it "returns an empty array when nothing was found" do
     s.search("foo").should == []
   end
+
+  context "searching on a filled index" do
+    before do
+      w.add Spec::FooDocument.new(:name => 'foo')
+      w.add Spec::FooDocument.new(:name => 'bar')
+      w.add Spec::FooDocument.new(:name => 'baz')
+      w.add Spec::FooDocument.new(:name => 'foobar')
+      w.write
+    end
+
+    let :s do
+      Polecat::IndexSearcher.new(
+        :reader => w.create_reader,
+        :default_field => :name
+      )
+    end
+
+    it "returns an array of documents, when a document was found" do
+      s.search('foo').count.should == 1
+    end
+  end
 end