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Multi-word asset search not functioning

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I have noticed recently that when I try to search for tokens, tiles, etc... the search doesn't work if I use more than one word, or if I use search modifiers. Searching for "red dragon" returns zero results (excluding premium results), but "dragon" works fine. Any suggestions? system details: OS Windows10 Browser Google Chrome Steps to reproduce 1)Log into game 2) Perform Multi word search on appropriate tab
Same issue as reported  here .  Anecdotally, several other people I've talked to all see the same behavior.  I think the issue is site-wide.  There hasn't been a dev response on the earlier thread for several weeks, though.  Could we get a dev response to at least confirm whether you're able to repro the issue?
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Gen Kitty
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As the Devs said over here After doing some digging, this is what's the cause of this issue: Back in the early days of Roll20, Google's search engine API was free and readily available to be used. This was utilized for our web search for the Art Library. At the time, Google had claimed that this would be a freely available asset for a long time. As you can probably guess where this story is going, they decided later to lock their API behind a very significant price tag. Nowadays, when someone runs searches in the art library, it's using search results that we scraped back when we still had the API available. Those search results are tied to the keywords that were searched with at the time. This list of compiled searches are nearly four years old now, and limited to the keywords that were utilized by a fraction of the userbase that we have now. Ideally, we would find another search engine API to utilize, but so far we haven't found one that is financially feasible to license. When things change it will be announced, but for now we're stuck with what we have.