diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bf2ad57d0..2a7f12f36 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 build/
 dist/
+htmlcov/
 *egg-info/
 __pycache__/
 .coverage
diff --git a/test/python/testann.py b/test/python/testann.py
index 3ba08d6d7..8d763637a 100644
--- a/test/python/testann.py
+++ b/test/python/testann.py
@@ -50,6 +50,21 @@ def testSave(self):
         model.save(index)
         model.load(index)
 
+    def testSearch(self):
+        """
+        Tests ANN search
+        """
+
+        # Generate ANN index
+        model = self.backend("annoy")
+
+        # Generate query vector
+        query = np.random.rand(300).astype(np.float32)
+        self.normalize(query)
+
+        # Ensure top result has similarity > 0
+        self.assertGreater(model.search(query, 1)[0][1], 0)
+
     def backend(self, name, length=100):
         """
         Tests a backend
@@ -57,8 +72,23 @@ def backend(self, name, length=100):
 
         # Generate test data
         data = np.random.rand(length, 300).astype(np.float32)
+        self.normalize(data)
 
         model = ANN.create({"backend": name, "dimensions": data.shape[1]})
         model.index(data)
 
         return model
+
+    def normalize(self, embeddings):
+        """
+        Normalizes embeddings using L2 normalization. Operation applied directly on array.
+
+        Args:
+            embeddings: input embeddings matrix
+        """
+
+        # Calculation is different for matrices vs vectors
+        if len(embeddings.shape) > 1:
+            embeddings /= np.linalg.norm(embeddings, axis=1)[:, np.newaxis]
+        else:
+            embeddings /= np.linalg.norm(embeddings)
diff --git a/test/python/testembeddings.py b/test/python/testembeddings.py
index 2fb1f32cc..90e069139 100644
--- a/test/python/testembeddings.py
+++ b/test/python/testembeddings.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 
 from txtai.embeddings import Embeddings
+from txtai.vectors import WordVectors
 
 class TestEmbeddings(unittest.TestCase):
     """
@@ -72,3 +73,40 @@ def testSimilarity(self):
         uid = np.argmax(self.embeddings.similarity("feel good story", self.data))
 
         self.assertEqual(self.data[uid], self.data[4])
+
+    def testWords(self):
+        """
+        Test embeddings backed by word vectors
+        """
+
+        # Initialize model path
+        path = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "model")
+        os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True)
+
+        # Build tokens file
+        with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode="w", delete=False) as output:
+            tokens = output.name
+            for x in self.data:
+                output.write(x + "\n")
+
+        # Word vectors path
+        vectors = os.path.join(path, "test-300d")
+
+        # Build word vectors, if they don't already exist
+        WordVectors.build(tokens, 300, 1, vectors)
+
+        # Create dataset
+        data = [(x, row, None) for x, row in enumerate(self.data)]
+
+        # Create embeddings model, backed by word vectors
+        embeddings = Embeddings({"path": vectors + ".magnitude",
+                                 "scoring": "bm25",
+                                 "pca": 3,
+                                 "quantize": True})
+
+        # Call scoring and index methods
+        embeddings.score(data)
+        embeddings.index(data)
+
+        # Test search
+        self.assertIsNotNone(embeddings.search("win", 1))