Keep the examples coming.
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Hello! It shows as first for me (used your link)… I dont know what is going on.
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Strange, still doesn’t work for me. Are they doing some secret A/B testing on their sorting alg?
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The point is I am on phone currently. Gimme a second. Ill check on pc.
EDIT: Yeh. Same on PC. I see it as first.
EDIT2: Some secret AB testing confirmed.
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My game is now showing when I search by name (Game of Clones)!
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Hey developers,
The search algorithm was updated in December. All of the games reported in this thread are now showing up correctly in the search results for me. Do you have any more examples of popular games that don’t show up correctly in the search results?
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Sorry to bump this but I feel like it is necessary. On March 24th of this year, I released a game and it was paid access. I thought that since it was paid access it lost seo because Roblox would want free games to be prioritized. A few days ago I made the game free and it still does not show up in the search and this is why I am concerned. The name of the game is Find the Noobs 2 and when I search up Find the Noobs or Find the Noobs 2 it is nowhere near the top of the list.When I searched for Find the Noobs, Find the Noobs 2 was the 479th result and when I searched for Find the Noobs 2, the game was the 243rd result.
It has now been over a month, over 10,000 ratings, 30,000 favourites, 1m+ visits, 200+ concurrent at all times and it’s still at the bottom or not even in the search results.
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My game: https://www.roblox.com/games/3587181112/gamepass-Creeper-CHAOS-Testing
Seems like it is ignored by the ROBLOX search engine. This problem has never occurred with me before and is very strange because it has quite a lot of reoccurring players, 500+.
It may be due to it not having a thumbnail yet, I will try adding one soon.
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I have a new game “Sheep Farm Simulator” that is not showing up when I search for that name.
https://www.roblox.com/games/3104648388/Sheep-Farm-Simulator
I should clarify that I renamed my game to “Sheep Farm Simulator”, and now the search does not return any results for the new game name. (But it does return results for the old game name).
So the problem seems to be related to renaming a game, and the search engine not picking up the new name. Is this something that you can fix, so that my game comes up when people search for it with the new name?
New Game Name:
https://www.roblox.com/games/3104648388/Sheep-Farm-Simulator
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Sorry for reviving this but I think I found out my problem and i’m pretty sure it was because it didn’t have a thumbnail/game icon.
Hi! I’m having the same issue. I just launched Magic Realms a couple of days ago, and I’ve received so many comments of people not being able to find the game when they search it. This is a pressing issue, as it’s hurting the results of my marketing campaign.
Here’s a link to the game: 💕Magic Realms [BETA]💕 - Roblox
Thanks!!
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To clarify, when I was beta testing, the search result would place my game on top. This has only been happening recently.
Just going to bump since this still happens
I’m going through the same problem. I released my game a week ago and it has 30k visits and It can’t be searched.
Even when typing the full name or partial it still doesn’t show up. Might be because of Roblox’s search using terms and not the full search.
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Hello I am replying in the forum chat for help with the same issue, I have launched two games and have had a few thousand visits however my games do not show up in the search bar, even if typed exactly how the game title is worded, any help is great.
Below are the links to my two games:
Monster Escape: Monster Escape V2 - Roblox
Zombie Task force tycoon: Zombie Task Force Tycoon - Roblox
It seems like popularity of the games is more prioritized than the actual name. I entered the name of my unreleased game (Bloxy Cola Factory, if you wonder) and I get this:
As you can see, there is not even a single mention of Bloxy Cola. It’s just popular games that have at least 1 word from the search. The actual game is at #171. Please make the name higher priority than popularity.
Sorry for engrish.
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Over two weeks and my game’s still not searchable. Ouchie.
I imagine there’s a certain threshold on time since creation/visit count before your game can be searched.
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Not really. The reason why you don’t see your game in the search is the broken search. Someone would’ve already created a game with that name and it also wouldn’t show up.
I remember I tried to search for a game that is published by Roblox themselves and I had absolutely no results.
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Obviously botted games get to search almost immediately so I still suspect that search results aren’t actually getting games from the list of all games but from a special separate list that is updated regularly based on concurrent players/visits/growth rate
Would be really amazing if the Roblox staff replied to any of this.
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I’m seeing this for our game Murder Party. If you keep scrolling down you can eventually find it at rank #315 on page 8 of results. It’s ranking below games with 0 likes and <100 visits. We’ve had the game published publicly for a few months now and just did a big ad push to test our beta version, so it definitely should be higher in search results.
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