# Searching efficiently through groups of tags
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-efficiently-through-groups-of-tags/121467
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** search, tag-groups
**Created:** [June 27, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-efficiently-through-groups-of-tags/121467 "2019-06-27T08:01:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-efficiently-through-groups-of-tags/121467/1 "2019-06-27T08:01:58Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8f7a387aa7553c05fbab478e3d9f3a16e2cd3ca2](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8f7a387aa7553c05fbab478e3d9f3a16e2cd3ca2)
We just amended search so it falls back to tag groups after attempting to search for categories and tags.
Tag groups which are managed in the `/tag-groups` route allow you to create grouping of tags with special behaviors.
In our internal use we like to group `runbook` and `knowledge-base` as our `docs` group.
Once you create a grouping search will also be able to search the grouping.
The term:
`reboot #docs`
Will:
1. Check if there is a `docs` category - if so, scope results to the `docs` category.
2. Check if there is a `docs` tag - if so, scope results to the `docs` tag.
3. Check if there is a `docs` tag group - if so, scope results to the `docs` tag group.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-efficiently-through-groups-of-tags/121467/3 "2023-12-01T12:39:12Z")