# Search is limited per-post instead of per-topic?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-is-limited-per-post-instead-of-per-topic/29418>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** search\
**Created:** [Maio 29, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-is-limited-per-post-instead-of-per-topic/29418 "2015-05-29T14:53:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![simonsarris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simonsarris/32/119744_2.png) [@simonsarris](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simonsarris)\
**Post date:** [Maio 29, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-is-limited-per-post-instead-of-per-topic/29418/4 "2015-05-29T15:15:14Z")

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> So you are wanting a user:johnsmith search to search all posts in topics created by johnsmith even if he didn’t post them?

Yeah, or more generally, if I searched for:

> user:johnsmith keywords

I would expect to see results that could be described as “topics _involving_ `johnsmith` and `keywords`.” At least that’s sort of my intuitive expectation from using major search engines, and it seems to be important at least for technical Q&A search.

So maybe topics he started where the keyword is mentioned, but perhaps also just topics he posted in where he or someone else mentioned the keyword.

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