Has anyone else noticed a drop in sales due to the search feature changing?

[#1]

I have several shops and often do searches each day to see if my items are being seen. I didn't notice that the search feature had changed and when I went in to see where my items were falling in the mix, I couldn't find them! One of my shops that only sells diaper cakes doesn't even show...I've scanned through 28 pages and my items aren't even there and after 28 pages I gave up.

Then I realized that we have the options of Most Recent, Relevancy, Highest Price, Lowest Price. For some reason it defaults to Relevancy and my cakes don't even show up in the search. A relevant search for diaper cakes should bring up my diaper cakes, but they are nowhere to be found. There are other diaper cakes that come up that were posted back in Jan, but mine that were posted several mintues ago don't show. Most people probably don't notice the search options and so my items will never be viewed. This is really disappointing.

I've had a huge drop in sales in all of my shops where I was having several orders a day, but in the last couple days only 1 sale for all shops combined!

Does anyone know when they will be fixing this?

[PelangiDesign]

Not a clue although I know very little about how Etsy works. I too go in and search for my items once they have been reposted. I NEVER EVER see them on the home page of Etsy, but do find them based on tags in their relevent locations.

[PelangiDesign]

I have tried searching for friend's shops that I know exist using the exact correct name of the shop and nothing comes up for them either.

[AVelvetLeaf]

The searches might also have to do with the automatic drop down list of "handmade." Some items that are vintage HAVE to be searched in the vintage category which has to be purposefully chosen in that drop down list. Most customers don't know that. I wish they just had a general search engine for everything!