# Search function returning approximate results?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-returning-approximate-results/209536>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [November 18, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-returning-approximate-results/209536 "2021-11-18T14:41:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-returning-approximate-results/209536/2 "2021-11-18T17:51:41Z")

</div>

I’m afraid I don’t know enough about the Search to know if that’s on purpose or not, but you can add double quotes around a word to make it an exact search if that helps?

Eg. `"passants"`

[Résultats de recherche pour «&nbsp;"passants" in:title&nbsp;» - Monocycle.info](https://forum.monocycle.info/search?q=%22passants%22%20in%3Atitle)

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-returning-approximate-results/209536)._