# Searching for both Google+ Communities and posts within them

Not sure if this is a documented feature but you can search within Google+ Communities by adding s/*yoursearchterm* to the community home address (operators like AND/OR also appear to work).

[![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-RjO3DOO_hDQ/UzSSrPoNcdI/AAAAAAAAErg/sNi26bFfIn4/w568-h459-no/Capture.png)](https://plus.google.com/u/0/114662816634467534305/posts/MH8YzLEw57F)

[Emma Duke-Williams commented](https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MartinHawksey/posts/MH8YzLEw57F):

> I have some students using a private community for group work, and they have to provide a list of posts for assessment. The only way we'd found to search just that community was to scroll down the page to the start of the community -then use the browser's search feature, but that only found the posts they'd started, not the discussions. I have just tested this with my most prolific student & seem to have found both his posts & his comments.

I tried the ‘s’ switch in the url after seeing a Googler share this link which lists all the ‘Apps Script’ communities [https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/”Apps Script”/communities](https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/"Apps Script"/communities "https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%22Apps%20Script%22/communities") so it looks like it can be used elsewhere in the url. I notice however that using this [didn’t always return the expect result](https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MartinHawksey/posts/BMeWRfRAsnK), which is worth bearing in mind. [![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-BNI3N8iv9fM/UzCxg-7q2XI/AAAAAAAAEp4/jvgB5sUA8sE/w1357-h793-no/Capture.png)](https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MartinHawksey/posts/BMeWRfRAsnK)