Instagram users can now search for a location or hashtag, and see a Story compiled from Story posts by other users that include that location sticker, hashtag sticker, or hashtag in the caption.

Apps like Hashtag Expert allow you to search for the best hashtags on Instagram. It will search for the most relevant, popular hashtags related to your search. You can have the app automatically ...

This new update has split the Instagram following page into two categories: people and hashtags. Before the update, users had to click on a hashtag or search for it to view the top stories and ...

You can also search the name of a city, neighborhood or place on the Explore page. Instagram also notes that Hashtag search is available for local hashtags, such as “#sanfrancisco.” ...

While Instagram’s hashtag search already allowed users to easily find collections of photos on #wanderlust or #food, the ability to follow a hashtag takes out the search process and ...

Start with search. Instagram's search tool now behaves more like Google's. Instead of relying only on hashtags and usernames, it now surfaces posts based on actual keywords. That means if someone ...

more people are likely to search for it, but if everyone is using the same hashtags, that means the pictures at the top are always being shuffled. For example, #ootd on Instagram has more than 289 ...