Can't search for other blogs on WordPress

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    lucyadams99 · Member ·

    You used to have a search button where a person could search anywhere on WordPress by typing in a topic, such as “parenting,” and then you could browse through various blogs regarding this topic. Why do you not have this anymore? The same goes for nonmembers accessing “Freshly Pressed.” Why is WordPress so closed off now? How can I find blogs to follow if there is no way to access them? It seems as if members can only see “Freshly Pressed blogs and no others. How can I access other blogs so that I may find ones that I am interested in? P.S. I did try ‘search.wordpress.com’, but it only gave me websites outside of WordPress

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    timethief · Member ·

    The WordPress.com search engine indexes post, pages, and comments content (body text). Unless entered as text in those contents, blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/

    For Google searches use this format and replace “keyword” with whatever word you wish:
    keyword site:wordpress.com/

    Example search string
    Queen Victoria site:wordpress.com
    results > http://tinyurl.com/csaobsx

    For Topics (Tags page) searches see http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/

    See also: Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/

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