total newbie and trying to find a friends blog

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  sazzwordpress · Member · Apr 7, 2012 at 2:42 pm

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  Total newbie – I just signed up to wordpress and trying to find a friends blog via the url she gave me (her url is http://www.’myfriendsname’@wordpress.com) – but when I type that into wordpress it tells me to enter a valid url…
  There must be a way of searching for her blog just by using her name?
  Thanks for any help

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  timethief · Member · Apr 7, 2012 at 5:18 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/

  I suggest that you email your friend to confirm exactly what the correct URL is.

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  auxclass · Member · Apr 7, 2012 at 5:23 pm

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  Also there is no “@” in any WordPress.COM URL. – but as @TT indicated getting a link from your friend is the easy way.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 7, 2012 at 5:30 pm

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  ~~auxclass
  Thanks

  @sazzwordpress
  @ is for email addresses only and never appears in URLs for blogs.
  Try this instead http://myfriendsname.wordpress.com