Why are internal shopify search results so bad?

This is my experience with the search on the products and inventory pages - by all my attempts to use it it’s basically useless.

I can search for the exact name of a product, and the results will include 50 other products with one or more of those keywords in the product description before the relevant product.

I notice the search results can only be sorted by title, SKU or availability - why is there no way to sort by search relevance?

I think there are a few ways this could easily be improved:

  • Allow search queries to be limited to product names (if there’s a syntax for this, it’s not detailed anywhere I can see)
  • Weight search matches in product titles over matches in descriptions / other fields
  • Allow sorting search results by match relevance
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