Too many times now, DnDBeyond is not the first entry when I search for D&D. https://dnd5e.*******.com/ is what shows up when I search "Starshot Crossbow DnDBeyond" DnDBeyond doesn't even show up in the first 2 pages.
I don't know what it means. I don't know if anything is actually broken. I just know it's weird and wanted to bring it to someone's attention.
Maybe it's the search engine you are using. I just did a search on Google for the search criteria you indicated ("Starshot Crossbow DnDBeyond") and the first, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth results were all on the D&DB website. That's half of the first ten search result. Seems okay to me.
Too many times now, DnDBeyond is not the first entry when I search for D&D. https://dnd5e.*******.com/ is what shows up when I search "Starshot Crossbow DnDBeyond" DnDBeyond doesn't even show up in the first 2 pages.
I don't know what it means. I don't know if anything is actually broken. I just know it's weird and wanted to bring it to someone's attention.
Search results are tailored to the user in most cases, so this suggests whatever search engine seems to believe you favour using that site.....
Interesting. I feel like I'm outing myself but I'm not. I'm a paying Master Tier member of DnDBeyond with nearly every book in my library. But it does make me consider what I can do to fix those search results myself.
Also you can configure custom searches that can search specific parts of DDB. Here's how you do it for Chrome, but it can be set up for other browsers:
Go to chrome://settings/searchEngines in your Chrome browser
Scroll down to "Site Search" and click Add
Fill out the name of the search and what shortcut you want to use to trigger it. By typing the shortcut and hitting space, it'll search where you specify
In another tab, go to DDB and do a search, say in monsters, for %s
Copy that URL and paste it into the chrome search setup
You should have something like this:
The great thing is you can customise the search by setting specific filters when searching for %s. For example, you could select only the books you own, or to enable partnered content, or sort by any criteria such as CR or Type.
If you're asking why the page for that specific item doesn't show up, I'm guessing that's because it's only accessible if you own the specific book it's from (The Book of Many Things) and so google's indexing bot can't access it. Using D&D Beyond's own search feature, or the Magic Items page, might produce better results for that kind of thing.
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Too many times now, DnDBeyond is not the first entry when I search for D&D.
https://dnd5e.*******.com/ is what shows up when I search "Starshot Crossbow DnDBeyond"
DnDBeyond doesn't even show up in the first 2 pages.
I don't know what it means. I don't know if anything is actually broken.
I just know it's weird and wanted to bring it to someone's attention.
Maybe it's the search engine you are using. I just did a search on Google for the search criteria you indicated ("Starshot Crossbow DnDBeyond") and the first, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth results were all on the D&DB website. That's half of the first ten search result. Seems okay to me.
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Search results are tailored to the user in most cases, so this suggests whatever search engine seems to believe you favour using that site.....
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Interesting. I feel like I'm outing myself but I'm not. I'm a paying Master Tier member of DnDBeyond with nearly every book in my library. But it does make me consider what I can do to fix those search results myself.
Thank you.
If you're using google, and you want to actually force it to only give you results from D&D Beyond, use the "site" operator like this:
starshot crossbow site:dndbeyond.com
This will actually restrict it to only things with "dndbeyond.com" in the domain name.
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Also you can configure custom searches that can search specific parts of DDB. Here's how you do it for Chrome, but it can be set up for other browsers:
The great thing is you can customise the search by setting specific filters when searching for %s. For example, you could select only the books you own, or to enable partnered content, or sort by any criteria such as CR or Type.
I've got searches like this set up for:
It saves me so much time
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
What's going on here?
If you're asking why the page for that specific item doesn't show up, I'm guessing that's because it's only accessible if you own the specific book it's from (The Book of Many Things) and so google's indexing bot can't access it. Using D&D Beyond's own search feature, or the Magic Items page, might produce better results for that kind of thing.
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