diff --git a/app/controllers/public/search_controller.rb b/app/controllers/public/search_controller.rb
index adf5900..f7f0772 100644
--- a/app/controllers/public/search_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/public/search_controller.rb
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class SearchController < PublicController
     if !@empty_query
       full_text_search ['public:true']
     elsif params[:filter]
-      @results[@asset] = @environment.articles.more_recent.paginate(paginate_options)
+      @results[@asset] = @environment.articles.public.send(@filter).paginate(paginate_options)
     end
   end
 
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ class SearchController < PublicController
   def filter_description(asset, filter)
     {
       'articles_more_recent' => _('More recent contents from network'),
-      'articles_more_popular' => _('More popular contents from network'),
+      'articles_more_popular' => _('More read contents from network'),
       'people_more_recent' => _('More recent people from network'),
       'people_more_active' => _('More active people from network'),
       'people_more_popular' => _('More popular people from network'),
diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index ca3017b..999d19b 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ module ApplicationHelper
   def search_contents_menu
     links = [
       {s_('contents|More Recent') => {:href => url_for({:controller => 'search', :action => 'contents', :filter => 'more_recent'})}},
-      #{s_('contents|More Popular') => {:href => url_for({:controller => 'search', :action => 'contents', :filter => 'more_popular'})}}
+      {s_('contents|More Read') => {:href => url_for({:controller => 'search', :action => 'contents', :filter => 'more_popular'})}}
     ]
     if logged_in?
       links.push(_('New Content') => lightbox_options({:href => url_for({:controller => 'cms', :action => 'new', :profile => current_user.login, :cms => true})}))
diff --git a/app/models/article.rb b/app/models/article.rb
index 5ca4e23..75e7f60 100644
--- a/app/models/article.rb
+++ b/app/models/article.rb
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
     {:conditions => [ 'parent_id is null and profile_id = ?', profile.id ]}
   }
 
+  named_scope :public,
+    :conditions => [ "advertise = ? AND published = ? AND profiles.visible = ? AND profiles.public_profile = ?", true, true, true, true ]
+
   named_scope :more_recent,
     :conditions => [ "advertise = ? AND published = ? AND profiles.visible = ? AND profiles.public_profile = ? AND
       ((articles.type != ?) OR articles.type is NULL)",
@@ -146,6 +149,14 @@ class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
     ],
     :order => 'articles.published_at desc, articles.id desc'
 
+  # retrives the most commented articles, sorted by the comment count (largest
+  # first)
+  def self.most_commented(limit)
+    paginate(:order => 'comments_count DESC', :page => 1, :per_page => limit)
+  end
+
+  named_scope :more_popular, :order => 'hits DESC'
+
   # retrieves the latest +limit+ articles, sorted from the most recent to the
   # oldest.
   #
@@ -178,12 +189,6 @@ class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
     end
   end
 
-  # retrives the most commented articles, sorted by the comment count (largest
-  # first)
-  def self.most_commented(limit)
-    paginate(:order => 'comments_count DESC', :page => 1, :per_page => limit)
-  end
-
   # produces the HTML code that is to be displayed as this article's contents.
   #
   # The implementation in this class just provides the +body+ attribute as the
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