# 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:** [Mai 29, 2015, 2:53 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:** [Mai 29, 2015, 8:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-is-limited-per-post-instead-of-per-topic/29418/8 "2015-05-29T20:50:38Z")

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For example:

> user:codinghorror someFooMethod

Returns nothing (does not return this topic), and I would expect it to.

> user:simonsarris someFooMethod

Does return this topic, because only I used that term in my own post.

But if I want to find a topic where:

1. the term someFooMethod was mentioned
2. you (codinghorror) posted

I can’t do that right now. But I think that’s a fairly common search query (find a topic involving this user and this keyword)

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