# Should search prioritize recent topics over older topics?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-search-prioritize-recent-topics-over-older-topics/19099>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Agosto 20, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-search-prioritize-recent-topics-over-older-topics/19099 "2014-08-20T16:00:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [Agosto 20, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-search-prioritize-recent-topics-over-older-topics/19099/17 "2014-08-20T19:27:23Z")

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Also, sometimes I don’t want to do that work on behalf of a lazy user. I absolutely can find things, but I don’t like incentivizing laziness.

For the record I get the best results from search when:

- scoping to a category (I remember it was a bug that..)
- scoping to a user (I know John said..)
- scoping to unique, technical, specific words vs general words (rather than searching for “feature”, I think it mentioned “IDE”)
- remembering that search heavily prioritizes title matches, so ensuring that topics have good titles with the correct words, and hitting them when possible

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