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

A topic by iamoneabe created Mar 21, 2024 Views: 423 Replies: 6
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Hi,

I release game music on ITCH and most of it is CC0 / Public Domain and I don't require anyone to credit me, but some of my CC0 music was recently featured in a game. The developer was kind enough to mention me in a tweet. Got me wondering, if I have been featured in other games, but no one contacted me about it(because, why would they. I'm not asking for them to do so :) 

It's always fun to find out games that do. I quite frequently google myself and my artist name and sometimes find my music was used. My music was actually on a PS/Twitch/PC game and I only found it out by googling.. Long story short: Does the search currently search the description for matches, as well?

Thanks,

Aron (A.K.A. ONE ABE)

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No, just the title and short description, and it's going to heavily favor exact title matches.

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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.

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.

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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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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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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