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Search discoverability problem with string searches that are tags

A topic by zachstronaut created Nov 18, 2018 Views: 270 Replies: 1
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When I search Itch.io for "fishing" I only get one page of results:

https://itch.io/search?q=fishing

It is not clear to me how these results are selected, or why there are not additional results.

The tag view for the tag "fishing" is what I would expect to see, and much more useful to me.

However, the entry into that tag view is not obvious nor is it clear that I am not already in fact looking at the results for that tag.

Ideally, there would be a much more visible invitation into the fishing tag from these search results or perhaps when a search is an exact match to a tag, the search results should default to the tag results with some sort of "you are looking at the tag fishing. click here to search for the word fishing instead"



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Hey, sorry for not replying to this topic sooner. First off, we know our search results page needs a lot of work right now! We plan to replace it in the near future. The current search is designed for finding things by name. You can see at top we link a related tag page. For topic based searches we recommend people to click into tags to have the best browsing experience.

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