Site Post » Blog Post Searching · 6:29pm Jun 9th, 2015
I wanted to explain some things about blog post searching because there are some misconceptions going around regarding it and I did change some things recently.
Tags
Tags are not required to exactly match on searches. As a simple example, #review, #reviews, #reviewing #reviewed will all match each other, regardless of which one you search with. Additionally, tags are normalised internally, so casing doesn't matter and #pokemon and #pokémon are one and the same. Tag searches are also partial matches, so searching for #review will turn up things tagged "#episode review", but searching "#episode review" won't turn up things only tagged #review. Comprendé? This means there's no need for the community to define some kind of rule set for basic tagging because the system will handle it inherently.
Body content
Body content is much the same as tags. All the rules above apply. You can also filter out words from your blog searches. For example, you could search for "twilight sparkle -fluttershy" to find posts with Twilight Sparkle in the content but not Fluttershy. Also note that these searches search inside tags too. So a blog post tagged with "twilight sparkle" will come up in front of one where she's just mentioned in the body text. Phrase searching is also supported, so "twilight sparkle" only turns up posts where those two words appear next to each other in order.
Hopefully that clears some things up. Happy tagging? 
Ah, thanks for this!
Comprendé.
Hey, it would be nice to have some kind of [tag=#review] bbcode thingy to link to a tag.
Tags miss match oh that is an issue >.>
Praise the mighty Knighty.
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Or just typing tags as "#review #whatever" would turn them into links but I guess that's getting into hashtag territory.
I don't think I'd really have any use for it.
--Sollace
Our lord and savior, Sir Knighty, blessed be thee, that thou hath blessed us with yet another tool we will not use, yet complain about unceasingly. Forgive us for being mere pony folk, lest we bitch about best pony, the glamorous Rarity.
We thank thee for spending hours of thy time to make a site for us, one filled with ads about dragon sex toys and love pillows. We ask that your rule live on in thy contrarian way, lest our site grow dim.
All thanks and praise be to thee,
Knighty
This is very good. I'm licking it like it's ice cream.
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3135285 Do you ever plan on adding the ability to search through groups? Like stories that are only in a group? This has been a feature I've wanted for some time to search easily through groups that have 5,000 stories or more. Maybe add a tag when searching for particular groups?
Thanks for the feature and the info.
I love that you set it up like that. Ive rarely seen a site where the search function is half as useful as this, and usually just end up using the "site:" modifier on google search. Great job!
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Even though this is the way search engines should work most of the time, everyone just assumed it wouldn't because that's what we're used to from everywhere else on the internet. Lucky for us, Knighty is from the other internet future where this stuff comes standard because of course it does.
I love how this is a question. Is there some sort of reason why we might have unhappy tagging? Is there some dark secret in the tagging system that has yet to be discovered?
Maybe the question mark exists to represent Knighty's knowledge that somebody is going to start complaining about it (because that's what fimfiction users do) and cause much unhappy times for all.
I gotta say, that's a very smart system. I just now found a blog with the tag: #there are tags now? just by searching #tags. I didn't actually read that blog, but it still felt empowering to find it.
Very nice.
This is unacceptable! How dare you! What ever could have possessed you to make such a heinous feature you fiend!?
Why would you ever implement a feature which allows you to exclude Fluttershy?
You monster!
Nice, another great update
3148544 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming