New Search

I’m sure most of you have been experiencing the same frustration I experienced when looking for one of your friends or one of the pros you’d like to follow on FACEIT. Looking for TaZ? Easy you’d think, write “taz” in the search and there it should be… Nope! Up until today that would have shown you a 5,000 player long list of other users from “TaZdeBest” to “IdliketobeTaz!”. I literally smashed one of the monitors in the office when I featured one of these guys on the homepage by mistake… Well; no more!

Looking for taz… and i finally find him as the first result!

The search is finally smart — with today’s release we introduced two major changes to the search:

Boosting: most searched for & Verified users are now boosted in the search results. Looking for TaZ? No worries — he’s the first result you’ll get now. Don’t believe me? Click here (ouch — plenty of friend requests incoming)!

The “Show All” search results page with s1mple as the first result

Personalisation: The search function will now show you searches that are more relevant to you. I am looking for my friend, but can’t find him in this jungle of accounts. From today all search results are personalised. The first personalisation parameter we are using is your friends on FACEIT, but we may increase the amount of parameters in the coming months.

In general this release of the search marks a new foundation on which we can build new great tools to make it easier to find things you are looking for on FACEIT. In a similar fashion as we have been doing for user notifications, we will improve this tool in the coming weeks based on your feedback! Feel free to share any frustrations you have with this tool so we can solve them ;)