However - as of now - Best Match and sorting by Sales return the same results.
Did you have a niche term where your item was visible in those searches? Well, if there’s a massive hit using that term as a tag, it’s now at the top of the search, followed by all the other top sellers.
We might as well forget about new items altogether.
This is truly outrageous. I can’t even begin to understand what’s going on.
The tests should only be affecting category pages and not searches, searches should be showing best match. We have discovered a bug when looking into your issue where the text under the search box was saying a different sort than ‘best match’ (eg, ‘best sellers’) but the results were still showing best match as intended. We’re about to deploy a fix for that bug.
Can you please confirm if the actual results are showing ‘best sellers’ after performing a search?
I’ve also experienced this bug now. The search shows “Best rated” instead of “Best match”. Then if you switch it to “Best rated” and then back to “Best match” true search results will show up.
What are the motivation of placing the monopoly keyword club in the category pages as well?
I’m tempted to ask: Is it to lift the mood of unhappy bestsellers who donate every 3rd of their sales to pay for the advertisement of the site that systematically kills their market sales?
The tracks displayed under default Best Match are the same as the Best Sellers. Choosing Trending Items shows results similar to but not the same as what were previously Best Match.
We’ve deployed a fix to all Markets for this except GR (needs a separate fix). Searches should return to best match as soon as the cache clears, usually a couple hours. Thanks for reporting this issue.