Sorry for the issues surrounding search. We are very aware and actively working on it. There are a number of issues within search that lead to the current behaviour, and as we work our way through these you will be seeing search results differ and change quite a bit from time to time.
Tags indeed have more weight now but it is far from perfect. What we are trying to get to is that you can enter say ‘low poly stylized cartoon rock pack’ and that it accurately finds the right products based on these keywords. Tags are an important part of this as they are the keywords, but they may have too much weight right now. We will need to find the best balance between things.
Aside from tag weights we have a number of other tag features on our list: suggested/key tags during the publishing process, and filter by one or multiple tags as an extra filter option within a search result. We will look over the list of available tags in general too.
As raised here we are also having issues around it largely ignoring or downprioritizing additional search terms. For example one of our test cases is ‘handgun blueprint’ which results a lot of guns that don’t seem to have anything to do with ‘blueprint’ at all.
And it is also sometimes overly prioritizing very short entries. Results that sometimes have as little as a single word as description or a single tag can surface pretty high which makes no sense, as also raised above in this thread.
There are various things like that that we are actively working on to improve at the moment. It is our current highest prio.
I understand this may impact sales or ranking, but the current search is overall not great so we will need to work on this. If we can improve search overall that should ultimately be better for everyone even if it causes some unfortunate disruption at the moment.
Noted on the changelog @Probezeit, passing it to the team.
@Arodi007 It is on our list to also reflect things like ratings, however this is not without its own challenges. We will want to make sure that new content has a chance of surfacing in results too so we will strife to hit some kind of balance there.
@KomodoBitGames what are some of the results you’d prefer to see for ‘zombie animations’?
I currently see this - which seems reasonable from a UE dev perspective at least (lot of UE content in this result), apart from the hospital result which seems to have nothing to do with the search query at all.
@RecourseDesign I am currently seeing following result for “rd” - which all use ‘rd’ in the title or description, however yes your products, which start with the letters RD, are much further down. This is an interesting one. The other results are above your products because they contain “rd” as a separate word, whereas yours has it as part of of another word. That may be tricky for us to solve, because it is the same problem as “rock” needing to prioritize actual rocks (match) and not rockets or rocking chairs (partial). I will discuss it with the team.
@VertexMachine using ‘low poly nature’ I currently see your packs on result 2 and 10, and overall seemingly reasonable results, but I take that is because you probably since changed the tags?
Any examples or problem queries anyone finds please let us know. We can use them as test cases as we work through this.
Thanks all!
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