Search feature not finding some products

Summary

I have a product called “Maze Generator” and although it also has the tag of “Maze”, my product does not appear in the results of a search for “Maze Generator”. As a search on the UE marketplace previously found it and as results including the term “Mage” appear lower down in the list, I’m wondering whether this might be a bug.

What type of bug are you experiencing?

Search

URL where the bug was encountered

https://www.fab.com/

Steps to Reproduce

Search on FabDiscover page for “Maze Generator”.

Expected Result

Would expect my product called Maze Generator to appear.

Observed Result

My product is nowhere to be seen

Platform

PC

Operating System

Windows 11 / Chrome

I have noticed this as well. My product “TicToxicStudios EOS Helper” shows 16th when searching directly for “TicToxicStudios EOS Helper” and over 50 down the list when searching only “EOS Helper”.
In BOTH cases, there are other products being listed completely unrelated to the search like environments, materials, and assets.

I hope that they can:
A: Fix the search to better sort suggestions and improve relevancy
and/or
B: Add better search filters that will help filter out things that don’t apply.

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Search feature in general is awful.

Good example is I search for “Ramp” and it comes back with lots of “Lamps”, now I know we have certain letter/word/phrase matches but not good enough for 2024 to be honest. hope this gets fixed soon and improves.

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OH! Come to think of it… I’m searching “Helper” and getting assets with “Hell” in it, like “Hellhound”. Maybe they are overdoing the related spelling stuff? I still hate it.

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