diff --git a/code/processes/converting-process/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DocumentProcessor.java b/code/processes/converting-process/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DocumentProcessor.java
index 36eae72a..d1e4d495 100644
--- a/code/processes/converting-process/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DocumentProcessor.java
+++ b/code/processes/converting-process/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DocumentProcessor.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import nu.marginalia.model.crawl.HtmlFeature;
 import nu.marginalia.model.crawl.UrlIndexingState;
 import nu.marginalia.model.crawldata.CrawledDocument;
 import nu.marginalia.model.crawldata.CrawlerDocumentStatus;
+import nu.marginalia.model.idx.WordFlags;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -118,6 +119,10 @@ public class DocumentProcessor {
         ret.details = detailsWithWords.details();
         ret.words = detailsWithWords.words();
 
+        if (url.path.equals("/")) {
+            ret.words.addMeta("special:root", WordFlags.Synthetic.asBit());
+        }
+
         documentDecorator.apply(ret);
 
         if (Boolean.TRUE.equals(crawledDocument.hasCookies)