diff --git a/src/components/extensions-list.test.js b/src/components/extensions-list.test.js
index 3869ef0ccb29..a7a470595012 100644
--- a/src/components/extensions-list.test.js
+++ b/src/components/extensions-list.test.js
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ describe("extension list", () => {
   const maybeObsolete = {
     name: "Maybebsolete",
     id: "maybe-old",
+    artifact: "maybe-old-or-not",
     sortableName: "maybe-old",
     slug: "ambiguous-slug",
     metadata: { categories: [otherCategory] },
@@ -120,6 +121,16 @@ describe("extension list", () => {
         await user.keyboard("ruby")
         expect(screen.queryByText(ruby.name)).toBeTruthy()
       })
+
+      it("includes the artifact id in what it searches", async () => {
+        expect(screen.queryByText(maybeObsolete.name)).toBeTruthy()
+        const searchInput = screen.getByRole("textbox")
+        await user.click(searchInput)
+        await user.clear(searchInput)
+        await user.keyboard(maybeObsolete.artifact)
+        expect(screen.queryByText(maybeObsolete.name)).toBeTruthy()
+        expect(screen.queryByText(ruby.name)).toBeFalsy()
+      })
     })
 
     describe("category filter", () => {
diff --git a/src/components/filters/filters.js b/src/components/filters/filters.js
index 2bbd44c47044..944ddb9747db 100644
--- a/src/components/filters/filters.js
+++ b/src/components/filters/filters.js
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ const filterExtensions = (
   extensions,
   { regex, categoryFilter, keywordFilter, statusFilter, compatibilityFilter }
 ) => {
+  console.log(extensions[0])
   return (
     extensions
       // Exclude unlisted extensions, unless they happen to match a non-trivial search filter
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ const filterExtensions = (
       .filter(
         extension =>
           extension.name.toLowerCase().match(regex.toLowerCase()) ||
+          extension.artifact?.toLowerCase().match(regex.toLowerCase()) ||
           extension.description?.toLowerCase().match(regex.toLowerCase())
       )
       .filter(
diff --git a/src/components/filters/filters.test.js b/src/components/filters/filters.test.js
index 9e1338239a6f..4d8fad82a5b1 100644
--- a/src/components/filters/filters.test.js
+++ b/src/components/filters/filters.test.js
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ describe("filters bar", () => {
   const alice = {
     name: "Alice",
     description: "a nice person",
+    artifact: "some complex id",
     metadata: {
       categories: ["lynx"],
       status: "wonky",
@@ -125,6 +126,15 @@ describe("filters bar", () => {
       expect(newExtensions).not.toContain(pascal)
     })
 
+    it("leaves in extensions whose id match the search filter", async () => {
+      const searchInput = screen.getByRole("textbox")
+      await user.click(searchInput)
+      await user.keyboard(alice.artifact)
+      expect(extensionsListener).toHaveBeenCalled()
+      expect(newExtensions).toContain(alice)
+      expect(newExtensions).not.toContain(pascal)
+    })
+
     it("is case insensitive in its searching", async () => {
       const searchInput = screen.getByRole("textbox")
       await user.click(searchInput)
diff --git a/src/pages/index.js b/src/pages/index.js
index b12ed76419fe..003d3c7f9bd2 100644
--- a/src/pages/index.js
+++ b/src/pages/index.js
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ export const pageQuery = graphql`
     allExtension(sort: { fields: [name], order: DESC }) {
       nodes {
         name
+        artifact
         id
         sortableName
         description