diff --git a/cmd/godoc/appinit.go b/cmd/godoc/appinit.go
index d71ae6b9..d2de96e0 100644
--- a/cmd/godoc/appinit.go
+++ b/cmd/godoc/appinit.go
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ func init() {
 
 	corpus := godoc.NewCorpus(fs)
 	corpus.Verbose = false
+	corpus.MaxResults = 10000 // matches flag default in main.go
 	corpus.IndexEnabled = true
 	corpus.IndexFiles = indexFilenames
 	if err := corpus.Init(); err != nil {