Tumblr blocked your tag?

solomonara:

First of all, if you search your blog for a tag and get zero results where you know there should be several, your posts with that tag probably haven’t been deleted; they’re just blocked from all tumblr searches including your own search function on your own blog.

So, with tumblr being super messed up and not letting us search our own blogs for certain tags anymore, here’s a quick reminder that you can use Google to search your blog instead. It’ll bypass tumblr’s restrictions.

It’s not perfect because it searches the body of posts as well as the tags, but it might help you find specific posts of yours and you can get pretty specific with the keywords to narrow down results.

To do this, just go to google and in the search box type:

site:[your tumblr URL] keyword keyword keyword

(without the brackets, using as many or as few keywords as you like). You can still use whatever Boolean search parameters you want in the
keyword section – so like quotes and minus signs for specific results
should still work.

You might get some wacky results in there, but until tumblr unfucks itself, this is a decent workaround to find old posts of yours (or of someone else’s).

CAVEAT: Your blog must have the “hide from search results” features turned off (under Settings > Visibility) in order for this to work