Game Keyword Search Makes No Sense

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if it gets higher engagement from a given query.

This is clearly not the case as you can see here;

Roblox search is inaccurate for our game

While we are now appearing on search and we are grateful for that, a few weeks ago the search algorithm changed to one that doesn’t make much sense. You mention the obby search term is tough to compete in, however we are top of our genre in terms of most core metrics, however we’re being placed below games with stats far worse than ours (according to data collected by rolimons). From my research, the current search algorithm is almost entirely based on CTR, which while I could be seen as makin…

and on this entire post;

Roblox’s Algorithm Changes Are Killing Our Game

Introduction I run a team of 4 full time developers and a rotating team of part-time contractors called Ruddev Media. We’ve been responsible for many projects throughout the years but the project that our team has depended on over the last 4 years has been Bad Business. This is an FPS game that has 390 million visits, been featured in platform-wide events (Egg Hunt 2021, Ready Player Two), and was initially funded by Roblox in part of the Accelerator Program. Starting sometime in mid-late Apri…