Search using Tags

mark · Member · Feb 17, 2007 at 10:00 am
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This will be old news to some, and useful to others.

The main Tags Page lists quite a lot of tags. But it cannot list them all – there are more than 60,000 posts a day and if each just has 2 tags…

http://wordpress.com/tag/life/
lists all those posts tagged ‘Life’ which is great if you are after that subject but if you are after something not covered, all is not lost.
Just change the last word and use a – for a space.

All these are not listed in the main Tags page but people are blogging about them:
http://wordpress.com/tag/cheese/
http://wordpress.com/tag/rain/
http://wordpress.com/tag/bill-gates/
http://wordpress.com/tag/chocolate/
http://wordpress.com/tag/peanut-butter/
http://wordpress.com/tag/caffiene/

If you want a general search, use Google. Put
site:wordpress.com search-term
into them and it will just return results from us.
But if you want something a little more specific the tag usage above should help.

And you have your Tag Surfer too.

(will be added to the FAQ)
drmike · Member · Feb 17, 2007 at 4:42 pm
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Hey Mark. I have a question if you see this about the tags. What happens with the posts that are tagged “Uncategorized” within the tag system? Gotta admit that I’ve never seen that tag up there but yet most of the blogs I poke around in around here have plenty of tags using it.

Thanks,
-drmike
mark · Member · Feb 17, 2007 at 4:54 pm
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They aren’t listed as they are uncategorized :)
I know what you mean though – I’ll mention it to the others.
drmike · Member · Feb 17, 2007 at 4:55 pm
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So do they just get dropped? I’m curious as if they do, we’ll mention it to folks if we see it on their blogs.
wordsrus · Member · Feb 17, 2007 at 9:03 pm
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So, there is no way to search WordPress.com blogs — or even view an alphabetical list of blog names used at WordPress.com? The only way to search is via tags? Are there plans to have a full search function in the future?
drmike · Member · Feb 17, 2007 at 9:04 pm
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If you want a general search, use Google. Put
site:wordpress.com search-term
into them and it will just return results from us.

And a friendly reminder that there are over 600k blogs here. No browser is going to make it through producing a list like that.

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