# Why do title searches take so long?

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**Created:** [July 12, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-title-searches-take-so-long/364230 "2006-07-12T20:00:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-title-searches-take-so-long/364230/1 "2006-07-12T20:00:48Z")

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I just did a title search on the word “adult” in IMHO within the last year. The board took over a minute to complete my search. What’s weirder is that I only came up with 7 or 8 results.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-title-searches-take-so-long/364230/2 "2006-07-13T00:54:27Z")

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When you search, do you select “Show results as threads” or “Show results as posts” ? Show results as posts will take longer, because every post has a title; usually it is the same as the thread title, but the poster can change it, so each post must be searched.