site option on en.search.wordpress.com doesn't work

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  quanha · Member · Dec 8, 2014 at 9:07 am

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  The ability to limit the search results from WordPress search to a specific blog is not working.

  I followed the directions here http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/

  For example, http://search.wordpress.com/site:aquanhaphoto.com test
  or
  http://en.search.wordpress.com/site:aquanhaphoto.com test
  do not work.

  Has anybody been able to make the “site” search option work?

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Dec 8, 2014 at 9:31 am

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  It works for me. As stated in the support document you shoulkd use the following syntax in the search box to search for the keyword mobile on the site gigaom.com:

  site:gigaom.com mobile

  This translates to the following URL in the browser address bar:

  http://en.search.wordpress.com/?src=organic&q=site%3Agigaom.com+mobile

  The URLs you mentioned are quite different to the above which is why you end up on the search page rather than the search results page with your URLs.