# How do I do a proper 'find'?

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**Created:** [March 6, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-do-a-proper-find/937334 "2021-03-06T14:42:05Z")\
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This is not how it works for me. I went to [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889), which has 3000+ posts and did a topic search for Mustang, figuring that would have to show up somewhere in the thread. It returns a list of posts from #57 to post #2718. At the time I did the search only post #1 was visible in my browser and I had never opened the thread before.

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