# 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:** [29 Maggio 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:** ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\
**Post date:** [29 Maggio 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-is-limited-per-post-instead-of-per-topic/29418/5 "2015-05-29T15:22:26Z")

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> [@simonsarris](#):
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> Yeah, or more generally, if I searched for:
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> `user:johnsmith keywords`

> [@simonsarris](#):
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> I would expect to see results that could be described as “topics involving johnsmith and keywords.”

Sounds like a reasonable expectation to me.

The implementation of ordering by relevance would one to consider carefully. I would expect where `johnsmith` posts which include the `keywords` to have a higher weight (appear higher in search results) than those that didn’t.

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