Improving Creator Marketplace Search with Spell Correction & Facet Suggestions

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#13

And if you search with a English word?

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#14

Take my words with a grain of salt as I haven’t used the Creator Marketplace in a while, but for me creation date is useful when I’m searching for things that utilize new engine features. For example there are many Zombie models on the Toolbox, but if I wanted one that uses skinned meshes I would find better results if I saw newer models first.

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#15

Currently it will only apply spell correction if your account language is set to English and your search terms are detected to be English.

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#16

Here it detects if it is in English. Why do you check this too? It’s useless(?) and blocks developer.

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#17

I really want to thank the person who got this idea and all whom participated in developing it <3

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#18

Quick clarification: The detection is based only on the alphabet at the moment. The model is based on English language vocabulary and Roblox specific terms. If a word is not in these vocabularies, the spell correction tries to correct it unless it is written in non-Latin alphabet. However, to avoid overcorrecting for languages other than English with Latin alphabet (e.g. Spanish), user’s account language is considered to be the default language for that user and, therefore, used to enable spell checking for that user.

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#19

Thank you for the suggestions. Regarding tags, the current version of Facet Suggestion does not consider user provided tags. It is solely based on the query in this version. We are planning to expand it to extract the facets from the assets themselves and if we decide to incorporate user provided tags, we make sure they are matched against the asset and pass a certain quality threshold to reduce tag spamming effects. One way to ensure quality might be, as you suggested, limiting the number of tags.

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#20

This sounds like a nice feature, but when I search for something like “GUI” what comes up is things with “Guy” in the name without any prompting whether that’s what I meant, making all the results useless.

I’d very much like to have whatever magic you demonstrate in the clips where the results match the actual string you searched for and not something entirely unrelated.

I only started Roblox development a bit over a month ago, but I’ve been entirely unable to find anything useful in the creator marketplace because of the way it returns results that don’t have my search term(s) and aren’t related to it/them in any way.

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#21

The same things going on for me, this is a terrible feature for me, and every single time I search for something it comes up with the stupidest unrelated things possible.

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#22

Agreed with the 2 most recent replies of this announcement from this reply. I also noticed a lot of search results that I used to see, are now just gone, including some models I looked up for me to design NPCs (I’m not sure if they got taken off-sale or shadowbanned)! (Further explanation here)

Considering this, Roblox staff, can we please have another option for us to switch back to the old search system prior to this change/disable spell correction or a highly revamped search settings with more settings to choose, and allow shadowbanned models to pop up when the “include unverified creators” option is turned off?

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#23

I’d highly suggest the implementation of “Tags” in the future, to better separate created content across the board in not only the marketplace, but also the game section.

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#24

Is the “Guy” coming up for you as a search result or one of the facets?

The facets returned for “GUI” should be “interface, button, menu, HUD, inventory, dialogue box, health bar, progress bar, mini-map, control panel”

#25

Thanks for the suggestion, this is something we are thinking about. Can you elaborate on the types of “Tags” you would want? What would a few examples be?

#26

Thank you for your comment. Just to clarify, are the results unrelated to your search or the facet and spell check query suggestions?

#27

Thank you for your feedback. Quick clarification: If creators do not interact with spell checker or faceted search suggestions, there will be no change to the results due to these features.

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#28

When I go to https://create.roblox.com/store/images and type GUI in the search box, what comes up are things such as (my top few results)

Gravity coil guy (blue) (thenoobic_658)
OMG GUYS NEWS!!!
Purple Guy's face
[ * `` Oh, who /is/ this "ink" guy?`` ]
Anime Guy
Cool guys doesnt look back
purple guy
sleeping black guy
Corrupted Guy with cat
That Spear head Guy drawing
Really Guys Face
hi guys
Fall Guys
a middle aged guy

and so on. I don’t know what you mean by facets. I don’t get any kind of list of related phrases, just pages and pages of results with “guy” in them.

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#29

It’s both to be specific…nothing shows up at all.

#30

Of course!

So some tag examples that come to mind:

Holy, Unholy, Cute, Cloth, Leather, Boots, Thighhighs, Socks, Shoes, Sneakers, Necklace, Blindfold, Chains, Silver, Gold, Platinum, ETC…

Basically, an option of the “main” characteristic (like boots being tagged boots) and some options for aesthetic tags (like leather, black, white, colored, fancy, cute, etc)

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#31

It would be great if you could provide examples of the queries you have issues with. With the limited information from your post, it seems your issue is related to search performance rather than spell checker or facets suggestions which is the topic of this post. Spell checker and facet suggestions does not affect search results if creators do not interact with them.

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