# What's the right way to do an OR search in Discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-right-way-to-do-an-or-search-in-discourse/146349>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** search\
**Created:** [March 31, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-right-way-to-do-an-or-search-in-discourse/146349 "2020-03-31T22:10:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![charleswalter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/charleswalter/32/116433_2.png) [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-right-way-to-do-an-or-search-in-discourse/146349/3 "2020-04-01T22:35:32Z")

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But to provide an accurate list of results, a good search engine should be able to return at least similar items, ie covid-19 or coronavirus, and not rely on user to need to do separate searches.

Are we sure there’s no way to do it today in discourse?

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