Project search from Merge Requests view does not return expected results
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## Summary
Searching for a project from https://gitlab.com/dashboard/merge_requests does not return the correct project
## Steps to reproduce
* Visit https://gitlab.com/dashboard/merge_requests
* In the "New merge request in $project-name" field, enter "gitlab.org / gitlab"
* Result does not include https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
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