# Have search take me to my read position, or the first post in the topic?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-search-take-me-to-my-read-position-or-the-first-post-in-the-topic/109628
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 8:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-search-take-me-to-my-read-position-or-the-first-post-in-the-topic/109628 "2019-02-20T08:49:23Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 9:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-search-take-me-to-my-read-position-or-the-first-post-in-the-topic/109628/2 "2019-02-20T09:45:20Z")

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One change I am open to is amending search so it always takes you to the first occurrence of the keyword/s in the topic vs something inconsistent like it does now.

But… taking you to first unread unconditionally, that seems very confusing. I searched for bomb and am looking at a post with no bomb in it. The one with bomb is 2000 posts down.

Also see:

> [@Possible "take me back to where I was" button on progress bar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-take-me-back-to-where-i-was-button-on-progress-bar/30484/5):
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> I think the bigger pain point that you can have reading holes and have no way to track them (simply by clicking on a link)

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