Search Search terms should take priority

[johnskyrim]

When using the search to find a mod, search terms are not prioritized which means I have to go trawling through multiple pages to find what I want.

For example, if the search preference is set to "Date Published" (which is default?) and I search for "Legacy of the Dragonborn", I have to go through 11 pages of various patches and whatnot before I find the mod I actually want. This is by design because it is ordered by Date Published, however when I am searching for the term "Legacy of the Dragonborn", it should be giving me results where Legacy of the Dragonborn is in the beginning of the string, since that's what I'm searching for. Not for example "Draugrs - My patches - SE by Xtudo - Diverse Dragon Priests Cannival Patrols Draugundrs Spooky Monster Playable Undead The Cause Frozen Electrocuted Combustion Ancient Hulking Animated Undeath Tools of Kagrenac Legacy of the Dragonborn LOTD"

Changing search preferences to "Mod Name" changes the search results, but it's still not returning what I'm searching for. I have to go through 5 pages of patches before I find the actual Legacy of the Dragonborn mod.

Another example, if I search for "JS" (which is a prefix on a lot of my own mods), mods with the name "Kanjs" are shown instead. I am searching for "JS", so that is what should be returned first, but instead my search term is being ignored and the search is just matching the result regardless of its position in the result.

Perhaps allowing quotations in the search would help to isolate and return exact words? Right now, the search is too messy. The ordering preferences are helpful but they're not accurate enough.

I understand that it's nice to have a search that returns fast results and it does return fast results, but not the results that you want. So fast = slow when you have to go through numerous pages trying to find what you want. Having to make that much effort is not user friendly and it wouldn't surprise me if people just open another tab and search for "mod name nexus mods" on google and get an immediate result. That is a much faster method which unfortunately I'm having to resort to. On the old search I could type in a mod name and get exactly what I want the majority of the time.

[Pickysaurus]

The order of search results is controlled by your preferences here: https://next.nexusmods.com/settings/preferences

The "Default Mod Sorting" preference is the one you can toggle, which may help you get better results. (I recommend "Endorsements" as the preference - this is what the old search always sorted by). 

[johnskyrim]

Sorting via Endorsements does work better but I think there should still be improvements made to other sorting options because not everybody is going to know to change those settings.