diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb
index b4611c0cd4..66ce5d379b 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb
@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ module Homebrew extend self
       exec "open", "http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/browse.php?summary=#{ARGV.next}"
     else
       query = ARGV.first
-      search_results = search_brews query
+      rx = if query =~ %r{^/(.*)/$}
+        Regexp.new($1)
+      else
+        /.*#{Regexp.escape query}.*/i
+      end
+
+      search_results = search_brews rx
       puts_columns search_results
 
       if not query.to_s.empty? and $stdout.tty? and msg = blacklisted?(query)
@@ -20,19 +26,20 @@ module Homebrew extend self
         end
         puts msg
       end
+
+      if search_results.empty? and not blacklisted? query
+        pulls = GitHub.find_pull_requests rx
+        unless pulls.empty?
+          puts "Open pull requests matching \"#{query}\":", *pulls.map { |p| "    #{p}" }
+        end
+      end
     end
   end
 
-  def search_brews text
-    if text.to_s.empty?
+  def search_brews rx
+    if rx.to_s.empty?
       Formula.names
     else
-      rx = if text =~ %r{^/(.*)/$}
-        Regexp.new($1)
-      else
-        /.*#{Regexp.escape text}.*/i
-      end
-
       aliases = Formula.aliases
       results = (Formula.names+aliases).grep rx
 
@@ -45,5 +52,4 @@ module Homebrew extend self
       end
     end
   end
-
 end
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
index 97fa46f7b8..71417e61a2 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
@@ -427,4 +427,28 @@ module GitHub extend self
   rescue
     []
   end
+
+  def find_pull_requests rx
+    require 'open-uri'
+    require 'vendor/multi_json'
+
+    pulls = []
+    uri = URI.parse("https://api.github.com/repos/mxcl/homebrew/pulls")
+    uri.query = "per_page=100"
+
+    open uri do |f|
+      MultiJson.decode((f.read)).each do |pull|
+        pulls << pull['html_url'] if rx.match pull['title']
+      end
+
+      uri = if f.meta['link'] =~ /rel="next"/
+        f.meta['link'].slice(URI.regexp)
+      else
+        nil
+      end
+    end while uri
+    pulls
+  rescue
+    []
+  end
 end