---
title: "Reader search and related reading"
description: "The search box on your blog, what it searches, and how related articles are chosen."
updated: "2026-08-18"
verifiedAgainst:
  - packages/shared/src/post-search.ts
  - packages/shared/src/site-search-analytics.ts
---

Two features help a reader who arrived on one article find the next one.

## Reader search

Your blog carries its own search over your published posts: titles, content and
taxonomy. It runs on your site, against your content, with no external search
service involved.

What readers search for is recorded, which is unusually useful data: it is your
audience telling you, in their own words, what they expected you to have written.
See [reader feedback and site search](/analytics/feedback).

## Related reading

At the end of an article, related posts are chosen from what you have published,
using taxonomy and topical proximity rather than recency alone.

<Callout variant="note">
  Related reading gets better as the archive grows. A blog with six posts has
  little to relate; the same blog at sixty posts is a network.
</Callout>

## Categories and tags

Both features lean on your taxonomy, which is another reason to keep it small
and meaningful. See [categories and tags](/growth/taxonomy).