Post by hechelion in Are we able to search for matches in the description text?

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hechelion1 year ago (1 edit) (+2)

It's not exactly your question, but it could help you.

Itch pages are indexed by bots from external search engines, such as Google.

In other words, if in the Google search engine you add at the end

site:itch.io

The search engine will be limited only to itch game pages.

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redonihunter1 year ago

Uhm. It does work for site: itch.io

But if the engine would limit itself to itch.io/games, you would not search the game descriptions, only the stuff shown on browse pages.

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hechelion1 year ago

I had added the /game so that forum results would not be shown, but you are right, better to use site:itch.io

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redonihunter1 year ago(+1)

It is as I feared. If you add /something after the domain, subdomains are ignored. You cannot find any game descriptions, if you add /games, since all games are on a subdomain. But also, since no games have a url starting with itch.io/games/ - you will only find browse pages with that. Which is kinda funny in its own way. Try searching site:itch.io/games hechelion.

The google help page did not make this clear, as they do not cover this particular example. They write http in front, excluding the subdomains from the other end as well.

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iamoneabe1 year ago (3 edits)

That actually does help. Thanks :) Without the site specification flag thing, the results are too numerous..

EDIT: Doesn't work actually.. It also finds all forum posts and dev logs etc.

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