Status macro is not searchable

When you use the status macro, the text you put into it is not indexed or searchable. It would be nice if you could search on the status, as you could be using it to denote a page in draft status for example.

It almost seems as if the content is ignored, i.e. when you search for something and the search results page shows you the one-line excerpt that matched, nothing is show where the status macro would be.