SharePoint 2010 search not returning any results despite of successful crawling

Hi Friends,

I would like to share a funny issue with SharePoint Server 2010 search.
I have configured Search Services application in SP2010 as per the instruction in MSDN Associated this services to the intended Web Application using Web Application associations. Performed a full crawl after adding the proper content sources. Happy to see a succesful crawl log. But when i tried to perform a search from the web application I am surprised to see no results in the OOTB search page.

After doing some further analysis, I could figure out the issue. While adding content sources, and within the local SharePoint Sites content source, I have added the Url of the web application with fully qualified domain name. However, I have Alternate Access mappings setup, where the default is pointing to the web application Url just with computer name and port number something like http:\\<computerName>:<portnumber>. Changed the default Alternate Access mapping to Fully Qualified Domain Name and could see the search results.

A simple trick. Hope this will help who is seeing a similar issue.

Cheers
Paramesh.