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Hydraulic
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Well, I was playing Monster Evolution, and got on to the idea of Bubble tanks 2 for some reason. So, I go to the search engine and type in "bubble tanks 2" and it gives me weird games that have no connection with Bubble tanks in any way. I wish I could support this with an image, but try it yourself. It may not be a glitch, it could just be my not understanding the site but still.

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Gantic
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It's not a glitch. The search in general is not that great, which is why we don't have a community chat. If you want to search for a specific game, it''s better just to use one word, since it takes searches for each word in every game description.

Gantic
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Sorry, I meant community forum search, which operated in the same manner and pulled irrelevant pages.

Klaushouse
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The search in general is not that great, which is why we don't have a community chat.


What? Do you mean community search aka forum search? Cause that makes no sense.

What the search SHOULD do is search for the word bubble, then search the word tank in all the ones that found bubble, and 2 in the ones that found bubble AND tank. :/
Klaushouse
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Sorry, I meant community forum search, which operated in the same manner and pulled irrelevant pages.


Another case of me typing something that is corrected and posted before I am done posting. :P
Moegreche
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I agree that the search function on AG is, well... less than adequate. The search feature seems to retrieve any game with any word that you typed in. So when you are searching, make sure to avoid using numbers, like 2, or very common words like a, and, or the. If I were searching for Bubble Tanks 2, I would probably just enter the word "bubble" since that seems to be the word that is most specific to that particular game. Using "tanks" would be okay too, but it might return more games, I have no idea.
So, try using only one word in the search bar (more words will yield more results, which you don't want). And, again, avoid using common words or numbers, as this will give you lots of results.
Ultimately the search feature I think is meant to search for a game type rather than a specific game - and it really does its job well at this.

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