Brilliant.
This handles the use case of a naive user searching for a resource-like topic (e.g. a plugin on meta).
And it also works for someone searching for something esoteric that was only mentioned in a reply, ensuring they don’t land on something apparently irrelevant. In fact, there’s a reasonable chance that it brings them to the start of a certain strand of discussion within the topic, which is sometimes better than jumping to the most intense part of the discussion.
I just realised that the search was a topic search, not a post search.
When you search for a word, below each matching topic, a post extract is shown with your searched word highlighted.
So I presume this is the first post that matched for each topic.
This is what this discussion is about, which one to show in the search results, isn’t it?
I think I would also prefer the oldest matching post, if it’s not already the case.
Because anyway, the important thing is that, when you click this search result, you land on the same post as the one you just clicked. You must see the same text that made you click.