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Rising Star
September 9, 2025

The search works terribly

  • September 9, 2025
  • 12 replies
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I tried to find the song, but even by the exact title it doesn't appear. It's in my favorites list. Even if I enter the artist's name, it appears last in the list. 

 

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Roadie
September 12, 2026

Here are two examples of a terrible search results I’ve seen in the past couple days:


I just heard the song “Macho” by DESIREE on the radio so searched for “DESIREE Macho” https://www.deezer.com/search/DESIREE%20Macho (with or without quotes around one or the other word) and the song is 35th on the list of tracks, where the first 34 assumed that I made terrible typos, like “desire machine” or “La Machine à Désirer”. Luckily the album has the same name as the song and it was 4th on the list of albums so I was able to find the song: https://link.deezer.com/s/34nf2V6rROUTlYCmZ5e2G

 

Yesterday I wanted to listen to the 2019 album “Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972 - 1991)” so I searched for “Mogadisco”. The top result was a playlist called “Mogidisco” which led me to the album at https://www.deezer.com/en/album/114481032. But the list of albums returned by the search https://www.deezer.com/search/mogadisco/album started with another “Mogadisco” from 2013 but was followed by “Mogadiscio”, “Mega Disco”, “mon discours”.

I appreciate that many searches will include typos so it’s good to return results for similar names, but in both of these cases, the results which exactly matched my search were far down the list when it would have been nice to have them at the top.