Instant Findability

April 10, 2009

Andy Skelton

Search engines are the trade winds of the internet. Like the explorers of the sailing age, intrepid web searchers set out to enrich themselves, their ultimate destination the ultimate mystery. Never mind that they end up on a blog instead of atop a hill of glittering treasure or in the belly of a whale. Let’s stick to the romantic metaphor.

A year ago we launched the WordPress.com search engine. Monthly searches number in the millions. Today we announce a significant update: instant findability. The instant you publish, searchers will see it at the top of the “most recent results” when they search for any terms in your post. We hope this helps people find you even if you aren’t the fountain of youth.

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  1. sexylingerieforyou Apr 17th at 5:09 am

    Great^_^ so i’ll be found ^_^ hehe
    Everybody will love this 🙂

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  2. jenniferhh Apr 17th at 7:37 pm

    How fabulous! What a great way to get timely search results. It’s not like blog posts are time-sensitive or anything… 😉

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  3. Pablo Manriquez Apr 17th at 7:51 pm

    Word. Lookin’ good!

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  4. writerdom Apr 17th at 10:31 pm

    Thanks for all you do!

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  5. seaclearly Apr 17th at 10:33 pm

    Looking forward to positive searches (and results) ~

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  6. zurakowg Apr 18th at 1:10 am

    Sounds good. Will have to see how it works out.

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  7. saharhodakyandrade Apr 18th at 4:18 am

    I can use some blog findability, great news
    Sahar Andradw

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  8. zeeshanaslam Apr 18th at 6:44 am

    Nice Stuff

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  9. wes9 Apr 18th at 6:52 am

    Not only beautiful, but functional, too!

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  11. Arun Pareek Apr 18th at 12:04 pm

    Now please allow Adsense tooo.

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  12. lippy Apr 18th at 1:09 pm

    Nice, like the new feature

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  13. mertzig Apr 18th at 2:31 pm

    Really good stuff!

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  14. akmarauthenticperfume Apr 18th at 3:38 pm

    Cool -hope it works for me as well..need more traffic 🙂

    thank you

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  15. Ken Apr 18th at 10:41 pm

    Fantastic!

    I am lov’n WordPress

    Ken

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  16. trailerparkqueen Apr 19th at 1:23 am

    Nice work. I look forward to seeing the results of this improvement.

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  17. msvalleyisle Apr 19th at 2:07 am

    ❀ This is excellent! I think everyone will love this ❀

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  18. flowergardengirl Apr 19th at 5:32 am

    Another reason why I blog with WordPress! Thank you!

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  19. artsodafai Apr 19th at 11:20 am

    Thank you very much!

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  20. brachyura Apr 19th at 1:26 pm

    Great! Nice feature.

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  21. saxxed Apr 19th at 4:12 pm

    thanks man..

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  22. musicmadeez Apr 20th at 12:02 am

    What a remarkable idea.

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  23. potomoto Apr 20th at 1:12 am

    That’s pretty groovy. I can dig it.

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  24. Darcel Apr 20th at 3:34 am

    Sweet! I already got a hit on blog from this feature.

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  25. simply61 Apr 20th at 6:25 am

    ell,here’s hoping that visibilty for our blogs increases via this ‘findability’addition. 🙂

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  26. ignedraconis Apr 20th at 9:00 am

    This is pretty sweet.

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  27. orgudunyasi Apr 20th at 12:31 pm

    This is great news! Thanks!

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  28. Gypsy Apr 20th at 12:39 pm

    WordPress continue to impress…i can’t believe anyone bothers to Blog elsewhere!!

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  29. Laura Apr 20th at 2:30 pm

    Awesome news!

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  30. kristenmichele Apr 20th at 6:05 pm

    very cool!

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  31. queenflee Apr 20th at 10:13 pm

    Amazing! Thanks for the help!!

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  32. abh3s Apr 21st at 12:51 am

    Great tool

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  33. Kalki Apr 21st at 1:43 am

    It is a great idea! I love it and I know this will increase readers for most of us -specially for those who post frequently!

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  34. sarastexturecrafts Apr 21st at 8:35 am

    Brilliant… Thank you!

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  35. boddhayan Apr 21st at 10:15 am

    Its really a great feature, thanks for coming up with this ingenuity

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  36. pachuvachuva Apr 21st at 12:38 pm

    I gotta agree with whatchamacalit – the mustache is a nice feature, er, i mean the findability. ^_^

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  37. greenwives Apr 21st at 3:02 pm

    Sounds Grrrrrrreat! I’ll be waiting for all the adoring fans!

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  38. wedeclare Apr 21st at 5:34 pm

    Yes, fine. But how do I make people WANT to find me?
    …It’s so lonely to be a Rule of Law constitutionalist.
    …Sniff, sniff.

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  39. inbali Apr 21st at 6:02 pm

    yay!

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  40. markhervias Apr 21st at 7:06 pm

    its nice to have that in wordpress. It really helps. Instant.zooom.gone

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  41. alhakim Apr 22nd at 2:31 am

    thanks for making search in wordpress better. Great work guys.

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  42. Tony Whitson Apr 22nd at 3:13 am

    Would it be possible for a search window to be added somewhere on the dashboard for searching just the one blog from there?

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  43. rangvin Apr 22nd at 5:12 am

    Me like – especially the trade winds analogy.

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  44. pilgebump Apr 22nd at 11:30 am

    Now, if I could only get me one of those new-fangled dishwashers…

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  45. shriharshb Apr 22nd at 2:14 pm

    Excellent! Now this makes WordPress the “Undisputed Champ”!!

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  46. naniprints Apr 22nd at 4:26 pm

    Hm, interesting. I googled a post title, and there was my blog at the top of the results–cool!

    But when I google my name, which is in the title of one of my pages, or when I google the blog’s name, “Printing Disasters”, my blog is not coming up as a result.

    Seems odd that the more obscure thing (post title) gets more of a result than the blog title or my name.

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  47. John Nickens, PhD Apr 22nd at 5:45 pm

    Fantastic! This is one more reason why WordPress is the best blog site for getting a message out. Thank you.

    Dr. J

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  48. zero Apr 22nd at 7:39 pm

    this is great i have seen the views on my blog skyrocket!

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  49. The Live Food Experience Apr 22nd at 11:12 pm

    Is “findability” a word? It definitely should be… fer shizzly.

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  50. chavenue Apr 23rd at 2:50 am

    yey!

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  51. Edmon Apr 23rd at 5:03 am

    yes its true…

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  52. dileeplinkedin Apr 23rd at 6:51 am

    Very interesting

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  53. firsttimetravel Apr 23rd at 9:21 am

    Nice! This is very much helpful. 😉

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  55. bookwitch Apr 23rd at 11:11 am

    Good idea, but no, it didn’t. I checked this morning’s post on a couple of pertinent words. One appeared, but after some very old blogs. The other didn’t at all.

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  56. businessofipl Apr 23rd at 2:58 pm

    amazing…..!!!

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  57. Quito Apr 23rd at 6:15 pm

    Thanks!

    Gosh, sounds so helpful.

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  58. anderson@facebook Apr 23rd at 6:32 pm

    Cool!

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  59. Chris Apr 23rd at 9:33 pm

    That’s quite cool! Hopefully people will be interested in my blog… or click the link, scan read, then leave…

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  60. Miss Edinburgh Apr 24th at 2:03 am

    Thanks for this feature 🙂

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  61. melnieanne Apr 24th at 3:19 am

    Thanks from a newbie 🙂

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  62. melnieanne Apr 24th at 3:23 am

    This is all new to me…having fun!

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  63. adityawicaksono Apr 24th at 8:43 am

    great ! thanks !

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  64. sheenarobins Apr 24th at 12:33 pm

    wow! thanks a lot. that is a real good news!

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  65. lisablog52 Apr 24th at 3:42 pm

    Encouragement to post often! Thanks.

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  66. Matt May 9th at 12:42 am

    No.

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