[@robin-w Moderator 8 years, 9 months ago]

bbpress with a default theme (eg twentseventeen) will do the following

• search for say ‘hello’
• bbpress will produce all single topics and single replies that match this (which could be many)
• for a reply you will see the reply with the words In reply to :the topic name as a link
  
• click the topic name and you are taken to the topic

If this is not what you are getting, then come back