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Art Library Asset Search does not display results from Marketplace Assets

I recently purchased some token sets from the marketplace, but i haven't been able to search for them using the Art Library search.  I've been experimenting a bit and most Free Assets aren't being displayed either.  For example i can search for "stool" and get a free asset result, but no Free Asset results for "knight" or "goblin" I have tried disabling my adblocker and used 2 different browsers. Is there anything else i can try on my end?
Hello Rooney, 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. As such, I am going to close this post. Thanks!
Hi Rooney - We're going to re-open up this thread as this seems to differ from the situation described in the previous response. Our sincerest apologies for any confusion or trouble!  To confirm, for this issue, when you go to search for these assets, are you changing any of the filter options in the dropdown above the search bar? If not, would you mind trying to change the dropdown options for the items you are searching for and letting me know if that makes a difference in the results? Thank you in advance for your patience. 
I took some screen grabs of some different searches. i collapsed the premium and web searches, but the top suggestions for them did change when i toggled between tokens, maps or everything filters. 
Hi Rooney - Thank you for your patience and the additional details you provided. As it stands, what you are seeing is actually just a constraint of how some free items are tagged and named. To best find the items you have mentioned, we recommend playing around with additional search terms or finding them manually in their appropriate folder. In this case, I was able to find a few of the items you referred to by making the searches plural (“orcs” vs “orc”, “goblins” vs ”goblin”), which better aligns with pack titles and tags. However, going forward, we’ll make sure your feedback gets sent to the dev team for any future updates that may come to the item search system.
Thank you for the search tips