# Search - Excluding keywords
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-excluding-keywords/63332
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2017年五月25日 03:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-excluding-keywords/63332 "2017-05-25T03:26:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Paul\_Turpie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_Turpie)
#### Post date: [2017年五月25日 03:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-excluding-keywords/63332/1 "2017-05-25T03:26:55Z")
Is it possible to exclude keywords from a search?
I recently wanted to recent search for posts about Microsoft Project on an IT Forum for schools that uses discourse. However, searching for “project” brought back lots of posts about “projectors”.
Most forums would allow me to exclude projectors by searching for “project -projectors”, but Discourse doesn’t seem to allow it.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2017年五月25日 03:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-excluding-keywords/63332/2 "2017-05-25T03:30:24Z")
Doesn’t exist yet in Discourse, but it is marked #pr-welcome
> [@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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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017年五月25日 03:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-excluding-keywords/63332/3 "2017-05-25T03:52:46Z")