# Vanity Search Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-search-question/286024>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 22, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-search-question/286024 "2005-01-22T02:17:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-search-question/286024/1 "2005-01-22T02:17:05Z")

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It appears to me, that a vanity search will only pick up my name if it was typed into someone’s post, and not if it appears in a “reply with quote” box.

Is this correct? Didn’t the search function pick those up at one point? Why does it not do that now? Can we change that?

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-search-question/286024/2 "2005-01-22T02:25:51Z")

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I seem to recall we’ve discussed this before, but yeah, you’re right. Short version: Used to work. Doesn’t work now. And like the failure of a duck’s quack to echo, nobody knows why.

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**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-search-question/286024/3 "2005-01-22T02:42:46Z")

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Huh. OK, well I least I know it isn’t just me.

Thanks.