How to use makerworld.com web site search engine?

How to use makerworld page search engine?

What are supported modifiers, operators?

Example, I want to find only projects that have these two words anywhere in description, tittle or profiles, so I enter:
ryobi iron

but makerworld spills me bunch of projects that have ZERO “iron” in their descriptions. Such search result it basically a useless mess. But maybe I’m doing that wrong…

I’ve tried:
+ryobi +iron
ryobi AND iron
“ryobi” “iron”

None of these works as expected.

I’ve tried:
tag:ryobi
and it finds project that have ZERO ryobi tags but
tag: ryobi
(note space) works. Why the hell space is important?

BUT
tag: ryobi tag: iron
doesn’t work - finds projects without iron tag.

There seem to be no documentation on how to use search engine, FAQ is silent about that. A nightmare!

I’ve tried to use google for better searching:
“ryobi” “iron” site:makerworld.com
and that kind of works but I shouldn’t need to use google to search in makerworld site reliably. Especially that google doesn’t present search results nicely.

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@arekxyz You’re definitely on to something here. I’ve fought with the MW search engine too over the years.

In my testing this morning, I found this model that wasn’t exclusive, meaning it would be further down the list, and it had only a couple of tags. Ryobi Tool Holder Ikea Skadis - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld

Using some of your logic above I was able to get multiple tags to work using this syntax:

tag: ikea skadis, tag: ryobi

The target model appeared as the first item on my ‘Relevance’ list.

Like you mentioned, the space after tag: is important and the comma is also required. I believe we can chain as many tags as we would like using this method. Please let me know if this helps.

Unfortunately multiple tags also don’t work. For example:

tag: ryobi, tag: battery, tag: holder

finds NFC Tag Holder - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld which has no ryobi and no battery tags.

How are we going backwards with search engines? This is such basic, boolean logic that used to work with search engines. I’m so tired of corporate greed shoving their products on us that aren’t what we are even near to looking for.

I see - necromancer spell - bringing up old topics from the dead. :man_mage:


This way. It’s more up-to-date and still very active. :+1:

The Reddit is strong in this one