Title: Does it search comments?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Does it search comments?

 *  [JanSnowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jansnowski/)
 * (@jansnowski)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-search-comments/)
 * Hi,
    I have a WP site that has a lot of useful Q&A’s for my viewers to read and
   learn from. The standard WP search does not find any of the terms that I search
   for and that are only used in the comments. Does your Google Custom Search search
   comments? It is not obvious in the documentation. How does it affect ranking?
   If it does work that way that would be Excellent 🙂 Thanks. Regards, Janek
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-search-cse/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-search-cse/)

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 *  [Nick Ciske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickciske/)
 * (@nickciske)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-search-comments/#post-3787684)
 * This plugin uses the Google custom search feature, hence the Google index.
 * If comments are shown on the page, Google indexes them (assuming it’s not a 3rd
   party commenting solution in an iframe or rendered via javascript).
 * As to how it affects ranking — it’s up to Google’s ever changing algorithm.
 *  Thread Starter [JanSnowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jansnowski/)
 * (@jansnowski)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-search-comments/#post-3787685)
 * Hi Nick,
    Thanks for the reply.
 * Since posting the question I have been watching (with Analytics) the pages that
   viewers are directed to based on the search query.
    It does seem that comments
   and the replies are indexed as they seem to go directly to the pages with those
   relevant comments.
 * As for ranking – well I guess we are all scratching our heads over that puzzle
   😀

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 * Last reply from: [JanSnowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jansnowski/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-search-comments/#post-3787685)
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