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  cmaule · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 2:35 pm

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  When I tag a topic I find the most recent postings on the topic but not older ones. How do I find and access older ones?

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

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  timethief · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 5:59 pm

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

  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/

  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

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  cmaule · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 3:46 pm

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  Thank you again!

  I contact the following site http://wordpress.com/#!/read/edit/
  and one of my tag topics is British Empire. There are a number of tags for this topic but they go back for one month and three weeks and nothing earlier.

  Is it possible to access earlier British Empire postings this way, or do I have to enter a site another way to get earlier postings?

  Best regards

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  timethief · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 3:48 pm

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  I use Google search.
  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

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  cmaule · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 4:10 pm

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  OK, plenty of references via Google search.

  Out of interest, using the approach I use, does WordPress only keep tag references for a certain time period? If so, why?

  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 4:36 pm

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  WordPress.com is a blogging platform with a search utility for in house use; it’s not a search engine. All the posts under categories and tags are there but having over 35 million of us using the Topics pages to search the history of any tag would be a huge waste of resources. Google’s in the search engine business. They have zillions of server farms and the information is all available there.

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  cmaule · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 4:38 pm

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  Makes sense. Will use Google search from now on.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 4:39 pm

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  You’re welcome.