# Search string URL
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2017年七月20日 10:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500 "2017-07-20T10:31:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Vimala\_Ayya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vimala_Ayya)
#### Post date: [2017年七月20日 10:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500/1 "2017-07-20T10:31:42Z")
This is probably a very silly question but I need to link to the forum from another website with a search query but any search queries I run come up with the wrong answers.
For instance, if I want to search for DN1 via `../search?q=DN1` , it also comes up with DN10, DN11,DN101, etc. If I try something like `../search?q=DN1%20` it just strips the whitespace and comes up with the same result. I tried various other ways but cannot find the correct search query to run. So what is the correct way?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2017年七月20日 12:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500/2 "2017-07-20T12:30:36Z")
I had a similar problem recently trying to search here for “app”; I tried searching for "app ", but that didn’t seem to work either.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017年七月20日 23:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500/3 "2017-07-20T23:04:54Z")
Seems fine to me.. it is a slow search since there are a billion hits for a word so generic though
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### Author:  [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [2017年七月20日 23:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500/4 "2017-07-20T23:57:19Z")
I think the issue is searching for “app” without the “approve” results in second slot. If a stem is less common than a complete word, finding just the stem is difficult. The request is for a way to not get those longer results.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2017年七月22日 13:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500/5 "2017-07-22T13:13:46Z")
I was looking for a quote from you saying something like "the JavaScript app is the documentation ", but it was also matching every word that starts with “app” so I gave up. As the OP says, there seems to be no way to search for “app” without also matching “approve”, “apple”, and so on.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017年七月22日 16:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500/6 "2017-07-22T16:39:41Z")
Why didn’t you search for “JavaScript app” with the quotes? Try it.
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### Author:  [@Vimala\_Ayya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vimala_Ayya)
#### Post date: [2017年七月23日 10:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500/7 "2017-07-23T10:01:19Z")
The problem here is simply solved by looking for _"app "_ (with a space behind it and in quotation marks"). This gives you the following url: `/search?q="app%20"`
But for some reason on our forum that does not work; it now gives me all the results for where the search-string as well as quotation marks appear and not just the search-string itself.
Note also the double quotation marks in **`16 results found for ""dn1 ""`** , which it does not do in Meta.
We are still running a slightly older version: v1.9.0.beta2 +27 but could that explain the difference?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2017年七月24日 16:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500/8 "2017-07-24T16:02:58Z")
Are you running latest?
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### Author:  [@Vimala\_Ayya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vimala_Ayya)
#### Post date: [2017年七月31日 08:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500/9 "2017-07-31T08:03:04Z")
Sorry to get back to you so late. I was waiting for our main developer to come back from holiday but it seems he has disappeared so I went ahead and upgraded myself. Indeed, this has solved the problem!
Thanks!!!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017年七月31日 08:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500/10 "2017-07-31T08:18:04Z")