When I search up my games, they don't apear in the results, even if it has a unique name and there are only 5 projects that apear, none of the 5 projects were mine. My only explanation is that I'm currently not a scratcher. People of the scratch forms can you explain the issue to me. I'm trying to get a successful game! Heres some of my games if you wanana see them https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1069917225/ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1066150814/ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1069174324/

sometimes it takes a while for them to show up. It’s not a new scratcher thing tho.

There is a program called the indexer. It goes through all of Scratch's over 1 billion projects (you can see the current total count here), and it adds shared, non NFE (Not For Everyone, a rating ST members can give a project to prevent it from appearing in the search results, explore page, and front page for a number of reasons) projects to the search results.

The thing is, this takes a while. The indexer isn't exactly fast. Most likely, your project simply hasn't been indexed yet. It can still appear on your profile page, and any direct links to it will work, but it won't appear in the search results for possibly a few days.

@BigNate469 do you know how long it takes?

My games are also not appearing in search, even when I search for *exactly* my game's title.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1065857716/

It's 11 days old which seems old enough for any automated process to come through and index it.

Scrach_cats_brother wrote:

@BigNate469 do you know how long it takes?

I've seen it take anywhere between 5 minutes (it was just before the site's popularity exploded) and two months (the indexer was broken).

If I search for “Taylor Swift” I get 0 results, so it's obviously broken.

johnshed wrote:

If I search for “Taylor Swift” I get 0 results, so it's obviously broken.

No, that's just a blocked term to prevent music only projects

Still did not show up

Scrach_cats_brother wrote:

Still did not show up

Be patient, it could take a couple weeks, it did for me.

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

Be patient, it could take a couple weeks, it did for me.

—Or a couple months. Asking here won’t do you much, unless it has been more then 2 months, but then it is likely NFE’d.