# When someoen quotes you, it doesn't show up in a search for yourself?

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**Created:** [July 15, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someoen-quotes-you-it-doesnt-show-up-in-a-search-for-yourself/312642 "2005-07-15T13:53:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someoen-quotes-you-it-doesnt-show-up-in-a-search-for-yourself/312642/1 "2005-07-15T13:53:45Z")

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OK, yes, I admit it, I do vanity searches. But the primary reason I did it is not useless. I would search for my name to see if someone directly replies to one of my posts, because the pasrt that said "originally posted by bouv’ would show up in a search. But lately, when I do this, I don’t get results thast are quoting me. I assuem it has something to do with a new version of vBulletin, or a patch, and can’t be changed back to the old way?

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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someoen-quotes-you-it-doesnt-show-up-in-a-search-for-yourself/312642/2 "2005-07-18T03:36:17Z")

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Just giving my one allowed bump.

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someoen-quotes-you-it-doesnt-show-up-in-a-search-for-yourself/312642/3 "2005-07-18T04:09:35Z")

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There are two styles of quoting out there.

The automated vB 3.0 way:

{quote=bouv}Just giving my one allowed bump.{/quote}

The old-style quote  
{quote}Originally posted by **bouv**  
Just giving my one allowed bump.{/quote}

If you quote the latter way, it will show up in a vanity search. That’s how quotes worked in vB 2.0 and earlier.