Does intellisense show it as optional (surrounded by brackets)?

>Hi everybody,
>
>I've been following PluralSight ASP.NET MVC tutorial along and so far all been good, but somehow the last piece is not working as it supposed to.
>
>I have this code
>

>namespace OdeToFood.Controllers
>{
>    public class CuisineController : Controller
>    {
>        //
>        // GET: /Cuisine/
>
>        public ActionResult Search(string name = "*")
>        {
>            name = Server.HtmlEncode(name); 
>            return Content("You reached " + name);
>        }
>
>    }
>}

>
>which supposed to allow me to not pass parameter and still work.
>
>However, when I type just cuisine in the URL, I still get 404 error.
>
>What may be a problem?
>
>Thanks in advance.