diff --git a/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/link-element-search.txt b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/link-element-search.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9d54726b25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/link-element-search.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+   ?q=some:query
diff --git a/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/link-element-search.html b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/link-element-search.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ef0472d6b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/link-element-search.html
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<a id="link-with-query" rel="search" href="https://serenityos.org/search?q=some:query"</a>
+<script src="include.js"></script>
+<script>
+    window.onload = function() {
+        println(document.getElementById("link-with-query").search);
+    }
+</script>
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLHyperlinkElementUtils.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLHyperlinkElementUtils.cpp
index 10a95c6df0..b81afbd6ae 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLHyperlinkElementUtils.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLHyperlinkElementUtils.cpp
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ DeprecatedString HTMLHyperlinkElementUtils::search() const
     // 2. Let url be this element's url.
 
     // 3. If url is null, or url's query is either null or the empty string, return the empty string.
-    if (!m_url.has_value() || m_url->query().has_value() || m_url->query()->is_empty())
+    if (!m_url.has_value() || !m_url->query().has_value() || m_url->query()->is_empty())
         return DeprecatedString::empty();
 
     // 4. Return "?", followed by url's query.