Searching finds nothing ever

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  raybrizzi · Member · Apr 23, 2015 at 12:16 pm

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  I find the search feature from the wp-admin useless. I would assume that since it says SEARCH EVERYTHING that it would find comments, message text, and keywords and categories. I put words in to search for and it never finds anything. Would help me to make sure I didn’t duplicate pictures. Bug or feature?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 23, 2015 at 5:33 pm

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  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/

  The Tags search page is in the Reader area of the Dashboard.
  http://wordpress.com/tags/

  For Topics (Tags page) searches see http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/ This is the syntax http://en/wordpress.com/tags/canada
  See here http://wordpress.com/#!/read/topics/

  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 searches of your own content use omnisearch https://en.support.wordpress.com/omnisearch/

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  raybrizzi · Member · Apr 28, 2015 at 12:36 am

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  This is what I tried. none of the categories or keywords are ever found. it only seems to search the title of the page. again, useless.