How search works

Nobody pays for placement here — there is no way to buy a way up this page. What follows is the whole of what decides an order.

What the ranking looks at

• The words in a title, weighted highest — that is what a maker calls their own work.
• Tags next, then materials and the category a listing sits in.
• The description last, because it is the longest and the least specific.

When two results match equally well, the tie is broken the same way every time, so a page of results does not reshuffle between two identical searches.

Why you rarely see four things from one shop in a row

A shop contributes at most three results to the first stretch of a page. The rest of that shop's matches are not removed — they appear further down. Without this, one large catalog would fill a page and every other maker would be invisible on their best day.

What a maker can do

Name the thing plainly, use the words a buyer would type, and fill in materials and tags. That is the whole list. There is no trick, and anyone selling you one is selling you nothing.

Sorting

Results can be ordered by newest, by price in either direction, or by what ships soonest. Relevance is the default when you have typed something; newest is the default when you have not, because relevance with no query is a word for an arbitrary order.