How Does Search Work?

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  chinacomment · Member · Sep 6, 2008 at 7:16 pm

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  Hi. I have been trying to get my posts to appear in the wordpress search, but it doesn’t appear to be indexing them for some reason?

  A few days ago, I posted on “china and georgia”. http://chinacomment.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/china-and-georgia/

  I think the post will appear on the TAGS that I indicated. I used 5 tags and 2 categories.

  * But the post does not appear at all in the SEARCH: http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=china+and+georgia.

  * Many of my posts suffer the same fate- they don’t appear to be indexed by the wordpress search crawlers.

  How can I ensure that my posts show up on WordPress search? I think no post on my blog has more than 11 tags+categories, and most have less.

  Thank you for any help.
  -Chinacomment.

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  designsimply · Member · Oct 1, 2008 at 10:03 pm

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  Currently, I can see your “China and Georgia” post first when sorting by date.
  http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=china+and+georgia&s=date

  I can also (currently) see that post on page 5 of a search sorted by relevancy (the default).
  http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=china+and+georgia&page=5

  The search is based on content. It uses an algorithm to return relevant results. You can read a little more about the wordpress.com search here:

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