Angular $location.search() returns empty object

[Rose Hulman]

I believe I have everything set up correctly, but $location.search() returns "{}". I am using Angular 1.5.8

Here is my code:

var app = angular.module('newsArticleListing', ['angularUtils.directives.dirPagination', 'ui.bootstrap']);

app.controller('articleListing', ['$scope', '$http', '$location', function($scope, $http, $location){

    

// only absUrl returns something and the returned url does have several queries on it

    $scope.absUrl = $location.absUrl();

    

// returns nothing

    $scope.path = $location.pathl();

// returns nothing

    $scope.url = $location.url();

    

// returns {}

    $scope.urlQuery = $location.search();

    $http.get(jsonFeed).success(function(response){ 

        // JSON Data

$scope.articles = response.articles;

        $scope.allCategories = response.allCategories;

            

        // Pagination Initialization

        $scope.pagination = { current: 1 }; 

        $scope.pageSize = 9; 

      

// configure locationProvider  

   app.config(['$locationProvider', function($locationProvider){

       $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);

   }]);

    // Add 'site:' to list of safe urls

    app.config( [

        '$compileProvider',

        function( $compileProvider )

        {   

            $compileProvider.aHrefSanitizationWhitelist(/^\s*(https?|ftp|mailto|site):/);

        }

    ]);

       

// Reset page to 1 when search input changes

    $scope.changeHandler = function() {

        $scope.pagination = {

            current: 1

        };

    };

}]);