Search function not working?

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  msmphoto · Member · Aug 18, 2011 at 2:45 am

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  I just started my blog this evening and everything is running fine except the search widget on the right-hand side.

  Seems no matter what I type (tags, category, sentence) it just doesn’t return any hits?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  msmphoto · Member · Aug 18, 2011 at 2:45 am

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  msmphoto.wordpress.com, BTW.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 18, 2011 at 3:41 am

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  Hello there,
  I typed in “photography” and It’s working for me but perhaps you aren’t aware of how it operates.

  It can take a few days before new blogs are included in the search index. Brand new blogs might not have enough posts for us to accurately determine whether or not it’s spam.

  Also, keep in mind that the search engine only indexes the body text of blog posts, pages, and comments. The blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. Read more on wordpress.com search here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/

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  marysuefixer · Member · Aug 18, 2011 at 4:20 am

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  I’m having the same search problem. Things that I could search only a few weeks ago (like titles or shows) suddenly won’t show up at all.

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  msmphoto · Member · Aug 18, 2011 at 6:55 pm

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  Thanks for the timethief – I wasn’t aware posts titles were not indexed? What about tags?

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 18, 2011 at 9:29 pm

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  Not in the search.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 18, 2011 at 9:30 pm

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  @msmphoto
  You’re welcome and the answer re:tags was supplied by raincoaster.