# Prioritizing closed or solved topics in search

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-closed-or-solved-topics-in-search/262992>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** search\
**Created:** [February 9, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-closed-or-solved-topics-in-search/262992 "2023-02-09T00:21:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tris20](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tris20/32/264639_2.png) [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-closed-or-solved-topics-in-search/262992/2 "2023-02-06T13:31:42Z")

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> [@Refinements to search being tested on meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/refinements-to-search-being-tested-on-meta/254158/1):
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> Previously we bumped down priority of **closed** topics, but forgot about **archived** topics. This is [now fixed](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5d28cb709acff03dfab4675fa86032fcc96ed5f2).

Is this something we can toggle with a site setting? In some cases a Topic may be Closed and Solved. Conversely some users may even expect that to be _higher_ in the results.

> [@Refinements to search being tested on meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/refinements-to-search-being-tested-on-meta/254158/1):
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> How are the changes feeling to you (neutral/better/worse?)

I’m very happy to see search getting some attention. Being able to search specifically by category is already a big plus for our use case.

The one thing I would love to see a bit of improvement on is common spelling mistakes. Some search engines have spoiled me to the point that I will lazily slap the keys until a mixture of letters that only vaguely resemble to original word are in the search bar 😅. I don’t expect that to be matched, but improvements in that area would be a great step forward.

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