Application does not appear anymore in Facebook Search Box - facebook

I had an application on production, ~900 MAU, linked with a fan page. Through the Facebook search box, anyone could find the application typing its name. Note that the Fan page and the application have the same name.
Recently (2 weeks ago), I had to change the application "Display name" with something totally different, and since that day, the search box does not find our application anymore. Note that the fan page has not been updated, so the title is still the old name.
I've probably missed something in the documentation, but it looks like if an app is linked with a fan page, the Facebook search box uses the fan page's name & descriptions for the application itself.
Can someone confirm?
Thank you for your help.

It has been experienced by me much times that some stuff (Pages/Events/Apps) don't appear at the search box. A friend suggested giving it some time to update and it worked. Probably it's the same problem, it just needs some time to be cached

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