Is that meant to be some sort of optimization? That’s the only good explanation I can find for literally ignoring user input lmao
It would also be really nice if search results were ranked based on how much they match the search term, instead of just popularity or whatever other strange sorting methods are used.
Yes, this is something we’re also looking to address in the coming month. As you mentioned, this can get tricky but we think we have something that will work well. 
It probably isn’t difficult to do this, as seen they’re able to more easily highlight the ‘real’ versions of a certain game.
However, it would be an extremely bad call to go about removing games for being ‘similar’.
For example, how would such a system distinguish between a ‘real’ version, and the test versions under the same or partnered profiles? Or if a unknowning developer called their game the same name as another game?
In my own case, I had a very popular game years ago which I later let other players copy for free, so that they could learn how to develop games. I would not want those games to be deleted.
I feel like this is a great addition but overall is very redundant. Roblox needs to fix their search engine in general to give results that fit the search keywords and not random games.
As started in @TheAmazeman’s post there’s a huge problem with the search engine where say someone could be looking for teen titans so they search titans but the titanic pops up and vise versa
I do applaud trying to filter our the fake games by featuring them however this isn’t useful for a majority of games. This feature is only really used for games that are constantly on the front page where the majority of the userbase find them anyways. A minority of Adopt Me’s playerbase looks for Adopt Me by searching because it’s already on #1 for the Popular category. While games liek Emergency Response: Liberty County that gets a decent concurrent player count doesn’t get featured if you search it exactly. Instead, it comes with the real one first (thankfully) and a whole bunch of fake ones after it.
Lua Learning and Swing are both the first results when they are searched, thankfully. Most of the results past this first page are deleted junk and scams.
Lua Learning is double Front Page (Top Rated and Learn & Explore sorts), and Swing was nominated for a Bloxy award in 2020. I hoped that they would have qualified to get this fancy featured search.
The fact that they aren’t seems to suggest it’s based on concurrent count, since neither of them are particularly high (especially since it’s past midnight right now)
I think this is a good feature to add to the site, but it does have some interesting side effects. Some of these have been reflected in earlier posts (like rehashed games / mods that are approved by the original creator being filtered out). Glad to see the staff team continuing the campaign against thieving, even if it’s just namesake.
When will this feature expand to include more games? Will there be some sort of way to get your game approved?
While I truthfully believe this is a good update, there are inherent questions that arise from this. If a game is so obviously fake that it can be distinguished, why not remove it in the first place? On top of that, why give this benefit to front page (or at the very least insanely popular) games who are virtually immune to this sort of thing anyway? Even having some sort of stricter guidelines on the copyright of blatantly ripping off a games icon and name while sparing a feature like this for mid-range games that could use the benefit of free advertising on this front.
Another question is, why prioritize this when there are more damaging issues in the same category, especially pertaining to excessively copied clothing on the catalog. I also feel the player count would be a fairly good way to distinguish between a fake game and the real game you are looking for.
Regardless, this is certainly a beneficial feature to solve the issues it is looking to rectify, setting aside whether I feel it is the best choice or not.
This is good. All we need now is an actual clothing search system without hundreds of thousands of copied clothing taking advantage of keywords.
I suggest a verified game badge
Nice feature, now people will understand more which game is fake or not. Good update.
Personally, I still don’t think that this is really improving the current situation with game discovery. As you’re too busy making the front page games more discoverable whilst they’re already on a page clearly stated at the top. Perhaps, you could change this problem by making the games more discoverable by player amounts; ratings; creators and a few other ways. The current system for game discovery is terrible and I’d suggest on improving it in the stated ways above. Thanks!
Great idea, but you need to expand this to thousands of more games… Find games that have at least “x” number of visits on average per day, and single those out above the fakes…
I am searching up games with 400+ players concurrently and yet they are not “featured”…? There needs to be a faster process to make games featured.
We have relevance improvements that will address this issue soon. Stay tuned.
Actually most of the fake games aren’t breaking any roblox TOS because often they only lead to a baseplate and other then using the same name they can legally to that.
@callmehbob
The latest featured search result is on mobile app currently, and will be rolled out to web later.
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