From ddc7305ac981e58774dbe4cd36256d9ba855ada1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Rodewig <james.rodewig@elastic.co>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:43:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] Correct search API's timeout parm default (#55855)

---
 docs/reference/search/search.asciidoc | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/reference/search/search.asciidoc b/docs/reference/search/search.asciidoc
index 32be4af6485..ddbda2b46e7 100644
--- a/docs/reference/search/search.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/search/search.asciidoc
@@ -198,7 +198,10 @@ include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=index-ignore-unavailable]
   (Optional, integer) The maximum number of documents to collect for each shard,
   upon reaching which the query execution will terminate early.
 
-include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=timeout]
+`timeout`::
+  (Optional, <<time-units, time units>>) Specifies the period of time to wait
+  for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the
+  request fails and returns an error. Defaults to no timeout.
 
 `track_scores`::
   (Optional, boolean) If `true`, then calculates and returns scores even if they