# Is it possible to search for a topic NOT in a category?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-search-for-a-topic-not-in-a-category/61006>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 14, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-search-for-a-topic-not-in-a-category/61006 "2017-04-14T19:36:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-search-for-a-topic-not-in-a-category/61006/3 "2017-04-14T19:57:35Z")

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Duplicate of:

> [@New search operator "not" for tags only](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-search-operator-not/52087):
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> Over at Stonehearth we’ve started to have the want to search for topics that don’t have a certain tag on them, or that aren’t by a certain user. To the best of my understanding, this isn’t currently possible. As such, we’d like to request a negation operator for search, like Google support -.

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