# Search for posts gives wrong/incomplete results
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-for-posts-gives-wrong-incomplete-results/95571
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [24.Август.2018 10:50:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-for-posts-gives-wrong-incomplete-results/95571 "2018-08-24T10:50:10Z")
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### Author:  [@Tiaryn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tiaryn)
#### Post date: [24.Август.2018 10:50:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-for-posts-gives-wrong-incomplete-results/95571/1 "2018-08-24T10:50:10Z")
Hi!
We have a topic in Discourse where meeting protocols are posted and discussed. Every protocol post begins with “Protokoll der FSR-Sitzung vom dd.mm.yyyy,” where dd.mm.yyyy is, of course, the date of the meeting.
Searching for these posts does not always yield the expected results.
**Example:**
There is a post with this text:
> Protokoll der FSR-Sitzung vom 25.07.2018
> […]
Search query:
`/search/query.json?term=protokoll+der+fsr-sitzung+vom+25.07.2018`
Result:
> Protokoll der FSR-Sitzung vom 18.07.2018
> […]
> Next meeting: 25.07.2018
The result is not incorrect because it contains everything I searched for, but it is missing the post where the search string exactly matches the post content.
Shouldn’t I receive this post as well, since it exactly matches the search string?
Unfortunately, the forum is private, so I cannot share the posts and search queries directly, but I hope you can shed some light on this 🙂
Greetings
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [24.Август.2018 11:39:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-for-posts-gives-wrong-incomplete-results/95571/2 "2018-08-24T11:39:35Z")
Are both posts in the same topic? I think there is logic that rolls up similar posts found into a single result in the search because it is in the same topic (but I very well could be wrong)
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### Author:  [@Tiaryn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tiaryn)
#### Post date: [24.Август.2018 13:08:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-for-posts-gives-wrong-incomplete-results/95571/3 "2018-08-24T13:08:48Z")
Yes, the posts are in the same topic. You could be right but there would be no way to fetch the post I need via API requests in that case. That doesn’t seem right.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [27.Август.2018 01:46:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-for-posts-gives-wrong-incomplete-results/95571/4 "2018-08-27T01:46:48Z")
If you know you are searching within a topic why not use the “search within topic” API?
`test 25.07.2018`
AND
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### Author:  [@Tiaryn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tiaryn)
#### Post date: [27.Август.2018 18:45:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-for-posts-gives-wrong-incomplete-results/95571/5 "2018-08-27T18:45:33Z")
Hi! Thank you for your answer. It’s working that way!
Is this documented anywhere? I checked what my browser was requesting to build my URL.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [26.Сентябрь.2018 18:45:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-for-posts-gives-wrong-incomplete-results/95571/6 "2018-09-26T18:45:41Z")
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