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Is there a way to to improve the itch.io search for my game?

A topic by Émeric Coudé created Oct 17, 2022 Views: 278 Replies: 1
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Was recently searching for our game "One One's Own" by trying to type "On ones own" and it doesn't come up (actually, all that comes up is someone who republished our game without permission lol).

I was wondering if there was an area where I can improve the search capabilities?
Is the "Tags" section for that, or strictly for genre-type tags?

EDIT: Ok I found some info on this page https://itch.io/docs/creators/getting-indexed . However, I find it odd that the direct search doesn't take in account someone removing an apostrophe, made a suggestion on git https://github.com/itchio/itch.io/issues/1375.

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Indeed, the free-from search field is optimized for exact title searches, a thing mentioned in many, many topics that ask the exact same question. That said, having a title (and tagline) that's less generic tends to help. And in my experience, many more people search by tags anyway.

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