Search bar issues

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  songsfromthehowlingsea · Member · Jun 14, 2013 at 6:42 am

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  I have search bar on my site but it doesn’t seem to be particularly effective .

  Case in point if i type in ‘gin’ I would expect it to direct me to this post http://songsfromthehowlingsea.com/2011/02/01/the-gin-craze/ but it doesn’t, despite the word ‘gin’ being in the title. Instead it ives me these options: http://songsfromthehowlingsea.com/?s=gin
  What can I do to improve this?

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  designsimply · Member · Jun 27, 2013 at 2:23 pm

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  I see the http://songsfromthehowlingsea.com/2011/02/01/the-gin-craze/ post show up as the 3rd result for this search http://songsfromthehowlingsea.com/?s=gin but I see what you mean about the other two posts that appear first—they’re not really the best search results.

  That’s just how the current built-in WordPress search works. We may upgrade the search on WordPress.com in the future. I’ll see if I can find any additional information about that for you and reply back here as soon as I know more.

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  designsimply · Member · Jun 27, 2013 at 3:53 pm

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  I checked in with our data team and there are some plans in the works to update search inside WordPress.com blogs, but the changes won’t be implemented for a while. Hopefully it helps to know that it’s a planned update though!

  Cheers :)

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  songsfromthehowlingsea · Member · Jul 8, 2013 at 11:31 am

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  Thanks for your help!

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  100hogaresecologicos · Member · Aug 9, 2013 at 2:26 am

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  what a shame, the user has the espectative for search like google o facebook.