# How far back or how many articles does the search feature look through?

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**Created:** [January 22, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/how-far-back-or-how-many-articles-does-the-search-feature-look-through/3986 "2014-01-22T16:44:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rattasak\_Srisinroong](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a6a055/32.png) [@Rattasak\_Srisinroong](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/Rattasak_Srisinroong)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/how-far-back-or-how-many-articles-does-the-search-feature-look-through/3986/1 "2014-01-22T16:44:00Z")

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When I search on a site with heavy updates (like Hacker News), the search feature seems to only go back about 2-3 weeks, but on a less heavy site I get search results up to 1.5 years back. Is there an article limit on how many articles the search feature will look through?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![samuelclay](https://forum.newsblur.com/user_avatar/forum.newsblur.com/samuelclay/32/857_2.png) [@samuelclay](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/samuelclay)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/how-far-back-or-how-many-articles-does-the-search-feature-look-through/3986/2 "2014-01-22T18:55:00Z")

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Yes, it’s part of an article limit. The limit is 500 stories. I can’t keep all of them forever, as it’s an enormous cost and not enough of a feature draw to offset its cost.