Don't expand the topics. Just Collapse them. Then, do your search.

Your line in either/both forums should look like this when it is set correctly:

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Choose classic view | Expand topics | View in linear mode | Listing topics

You only need to set it in one of the forums and it is applied to both.

Jim.

Edit: No, the results page doesn't show Expand/Collapse. Go to either actual Forum to see the settings line and make the change to collapsed.