# Discourse needs better search **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-needs-better-search/305583 **Category:** Feature **Tags:** search **Created:** [April 26, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-needs-better-search/305583 "2024-04-26T15:00:52Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ) #### Post date: [April 26, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-needs-better-search/305583/1 "2024-04-26T15:00:52Z")
_Ok, I totally realize this is a non-constructive complaint but…_ Discourse really, really needs better search functionality. After all those years I still see myself resorting to Google every time I need to find something. Today I was looking for the exact options in a theme `settings.yml`. Normal search: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/5/4/45429ff008f38917226cc84e0421d8e46cce3986.png) Ok let’s enable AI ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/1/3/81306c44b1e00d7287af442de623b38139363d05.png) _sighs_ Ok, let’s go to Google. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/4/7/44771b337fdfbb17202dd296c2561a3c9d7b443f.png) Bingo. Immediately found what I was looking for. Revisiting the inside-Discourse-search, the topic I was looking for is the 25th result when “sort by relevance” is enabled, 19th place when AI is enabled. Other examples: “ad plugin” does not give me [the plugin topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-advertising/33734) in the first 70 (!) results, while “[meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) ad plugin” in Google gives me an immediate hit. (I thought, maybe I’ve been using the wrong terms but “advertising plugin” gives me the topic in the 9th place with in-Discourse search, 17th when enabling AI.) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-needs-better-search/305583)._