Comment Search
You guys are generating an amazing amount of feedback on your blogs. Matt mentioned in the April Wrap-Up that there were 8.6 million comments! Comments are flying in every second of the day.
And have you ever had one of those blog posts that was good, but the real action was in the comments? The blog post is only half the story, it’s the feedback from everyone else that fills in the rest. To make it easier to find the second half of these stories we’ve added comment search to WordPress.com search.
Select the comments options from the WordPress.com search page and we’ll hunt through the millions of comments that have been added to WordPress.com blogs to find what you are looking for. To reduce the comment inferiority complex you get many of the same features and options as post search: sorting by relevance (the default) or most recent, limit results by blog (like site:gigamom.com) and an easy way to subscribe to new matches via an RSS feed ( the Follow this search via RSS link at the bottom of the sidebar).
Comment search, because it was about time comments got a bit more respect.
- May 14, 2009
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I can’t wait to search for “lol” or “I agree”. 😉
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Very good one! Congratulations!
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8.6 million comments… wow!!
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Another new feature? Awesome!
Keep updating!
– Lora
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yea man pretty nice feature
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Oooo what a good idea!
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This is AWESOME. So often I go back to look for a thread on someone’s blog that I commented on and have no idea where it is. Searching comments is a fantastic addition.
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[this sounds promising]
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Thanks for adding this very useful feature. I appreciate it.
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Intriguing.
You guys sure have been busy with the new features lately!
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You know what I realized? Because of my freakily infrequent name, I can use this to keep tabs on replies to my comments when people respond to me by name. (Individual results may vary. Not recommended for those named Mike or Jen.)
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good…even if i’ve only a few comments… 😦
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You guys are on a roll this month! At this rate, we’ll be expecting new features every hour or so by next year.. 🙂 Way to go, and keep ’em coming!
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That is a good idea even though it is something I do not need at this time! I will get more and more comments in the future and then I will use it a lot. Thank you. You guys are really working hard!
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Is the search widget also searching for comments inside our blogs too now?
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Not yet.
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I love commenting and I love comments. 😀
Often the real action takes place on the comments page especially on social issues blogs like Nitawriter that is hugely popular (India issues).
Thank you.
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Awesome! Thanks! I asked for this just 2 short months ago on one of the suggestion forums….Thanks Thanks Thanks!
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I love my wordpress blog … thank you for all!
Latina 🙂
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Once again thanks. 🙂
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This is such a great innovative idea. Glad to see it’s fully functional.
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It’s great to see those thousands of dollars each user is paying being put to good use!! You Guys (and Gurls) just keep getting better and better ! ThanX. Keep it coming…
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Whoa, that’s awesome! I’m kinda overwhelmed with the huge amount of improvement you guys have been doing here over the last couple of weeks! Thank you very much! Once again, I have to say: WordPress has the best team ever! 😉
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I appreciate the “kaizen” – Continuous Improvement Philosophy at WP!
Very Well Done….
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Oh, this is great! Thaks you guys!
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Wow – the improvements come in everyday
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Yes thats our Blog :)) .. we posted only short review, and new review after 300 coments each pages/post. We enjoyed commenting. Thanks WP.. !!!
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Great!!. Comments are very essential to know the detail about some published contents. Thank you
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you guys are so active these days…
great job… you’re really making blogging here much easier! 😉
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I have a request: what about a collaboration with backlink/twitter to get backlinks from Twitter and other social media “credited” to what we post in our blogs?
That would be
pushing you guys over the toptotally rad.But it is great to see that you are doing so much to encourage people to comment, comment well and comment often…
Blogs are dead, long live the blogs!!!
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May’s been very busy for the WP.com team! Good work!
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Great idea! It seems like every few days you guys are adding new and useful features.
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Great thing. I agree that often comments and conversation are better than the blog post that started them. To be able to search through these convs is surely innovative.
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Thanks for the hard work wordpress! Wow 8.6 million comments that’s a lot of comments.
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Another good improvement from WordPress crew. Coolie…!!!
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I love you guys for all the great stuffs you all keep coming up with. This is something I always missed on wordpress… and here you all have filled in that gap as well. Thank you!
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i like it..
thanks alot 🙂
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Good feature.
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Yes! Now I can search through every one of my 10 comments! lol. (go eksith!)
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It’s Great , Its Really another Awesome feature From WordPress …
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Oh, this is a feature I missed. Fine!
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great idea. I often forget which posts i commented on someone’s blog.
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Can may users also search comments in my blog ?
Thanks for the feature.
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Anyone can use WordPress.com search.
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good stuff
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That is so cool.
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WordPress is amazingly improving.
Congrats! 🙂
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yes that is niiiiiiice! way to go..
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wow 8.6 million comments are flying in every second of the day?
wow thats great!
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That was 8.6 million comments for the month of April.
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Thanks. It would be even better if you add the “search comments” feature to the search widget unique to a given blog.
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That’s something we’re considering.
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is there a feature that helps us choose whether the comments show up on searches or not? i mean, what if i want the blog-posts to turn up on searches, but not really the comments (i’m guessing that blogs – political,religious, anti-somethings) that overly get negative feedback might want the feature)…i mean, they like the feedback, but just dont want the blog to be identified by it.
i’m only speculating (possibly with little vindication), but this is …well, …just a thought.
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If the post is public then so are the comments. There’s currently no way to request that a comment be hidden on a public post.
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very useful, thanks indeed.
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thank you
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great feature… 😉
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this is a great thing 🙂
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bwaha! search this! ^_^
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Yes, comment space is the other half best story. Many times in the comment lines we do get very spontaneous ideas and thoughts that the persons/readers not necessarily express it in a post or they may not have the patience or time or appetite to create a blog and put it in a post. In that sense, comment lines do provide many times very critical as well as appreceiting inputs on many issues. Enabling search facility for the comments is really a commendable addition on the part of the WordPress. Thanks.
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8.6 million comments!!!!!!!!!! thats a lot
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Searching comments is a fantastic addition!
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s there a feature that helps us choose whether the comments show up on searches or not? i mean, what if i want the blog-posts to turn up on searches, but not really the comments (i’m guessing that blogs – political,religious, anti-somethings) that overly get negative feedback might want the feature)…i mean, they like the feedback, but just dont want the blog to be identified by it.
i’m only speculating (possibly with little vindication), but this is …well, …just a thought.
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Sorry, but, no. We don’t currently have a feature that will make comments private. Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
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Thank U for W
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Superb 🙂
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WordPress keeps getting better and better. You just made my day! 😀
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You guys just continue to thrill us. Period!
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YAY! What a great idea, I can’t wait to try it. You guys/gals rock!
#80
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its so amazing
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Thank you, this is brilliant. What incredible action around WordPress!
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thanks! good feature!!
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another good idea
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This is one of the best feature that i have seen
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I’ve been blogging for awhile at blogger; but, I’ve realized I get more traffic here when I rarely blog than when I blog at blogger regularly!
Why? I don’t know. I think I’m moving back, though.
Laura
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Cool!
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Can’t agree more about upgrading comments. The issue of filtering to remove spam, and providing easy access remains. I’m setting my (business) students assignments in which they will be encouraged to leave comments on the blog.
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Thank you! yesterday i was dizzy looking for a comment from my friend. luckily, with this feature i can find it easily! many thanks..
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This should be interesting… Visit my blog!!! It’s something to do. LoL
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I invite all WordPress users to visit my website
Thanks, hope you visit again.
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TITANIC
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This is another come pli ment to WordPress! Rock on…
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Very Needed. Thanks a ton. Makes going through comments a breeze.
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