# Show matching tags in search results?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-matching-tags-in-search-results/67530>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [August 5, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-matching-tags-in-search-results/67530 "2017-08-05T18:51:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-matching-tags-in-search-results/67530/5 "2017-08-05T22:30:27Z")

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> [@j.jaffeux](#):
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> Making tags part of the directly searchable keywords would hurt relevancy in some cases

How so? I’d say that a hit in a tag is almost always worth more than a hit in the post content.

Besides, if your argument applied to tags it would also apply to categories (which are apparently included in the search).

> [@j.jaffeux](#):
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> probably hurt performance

Really? What are a few dozen (or even a few hundred) tags in the sea of post content?

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