# Unable to search my answers for a particular topic

In an effort to find this answer, I executed this query. I tried several other variants of this query, but I was unable to find my answer to a question about uncertainty. I thought I used to be able to perform this type of search, but whether that is the case, I would really like to be able to search for my answers on a given topic.

• I'd guess the issue is that the word "uncertainty" does not appear in your answer. I do agree that this behaviour should be changed.
– user856
Mar 1 '13 at 7:56
• This alongside your avatar makes you seem very dissatisfied with the software. :-P
– Asaf Karagila Mod
Mar 1 '13 at 11:49

A search of user:13854 uncertainty would now yield the expected results. In quite a few cases we're seeing come up, searching titles on answers specifically when searching within a user's posts makes a lot of sense. A change that does just that was deployed a few minutes ago.

• Thanks for the code and the notice :-)
– robjohn Mod
Mar 21 '13 at 0:53

uncertainty robjohn site:math.stackexchange.com

I've found that google almost always beats the internal search here.

• Thanks. I have been using Google for searching on SE because of this bug(?), but it would be nice if our internal search worked, too.
– robjohn Mod
Mar 1 '13 at 17:51

I wrote a Data Explorer Query which searches for your answers to questions with given keyword in the title. The results are shown in reverse chronological order, with a snippet of content to help in locating the answer you are looking for.

The keyword should be entered in lower case, since it is matched to LOWER(Title)

• Note that for logged-in users the field UserId is pre-filled, so one only enters the keyword(s). Just as easy as any search.
– user53153
Mar 1 '13 at 22:05