I tested Etsy's Search and it was BAD!!!

[#1]

I am an Etsy Seller and buyer. I started creating little oddity jars with mini animal skull replicas and real dead cicadas that I found in nature. I just love cicadas and other cool insects. I wanted to buy some cicada stickers to put on my crafting cart. I typed in Cicada Sticker in the search bar and hit enter. I was really frustrated by what came up. So many listings that were not what I was searching for. On the first page of my search there are 65 listings not including Etsy's picks at the very top. Out of the 65 listings 38 were actually for cicada stickers. 27 of those listings were not cicada stickers. Some were not even stickers at all. This will be long winded, but her is what came up in total and in order:

1.cicada sticker

2.praying mantis shirt

3. beetle sticker

4. cicada sticker

5. three cicada stickers in a row

6. one cicada plush 

7. three cicada stickers in a row

8. one cicada patch 

9. moth sticker

10. beetle sticker

11. real cicada insect

12. bug shirt

13. spider sticker

14. real cicada insect

15. three cicada stickers in a row

16. cicada exoskeleton

17. three cicada stickers in a row

18. wood carved cicada wall hanging 

19. real cicada insect

20. moth sticker

21. cicada sticker 

22. cicada patch

23. spider sticker

24. cicada sticker 

25. real cicada insect

26. three cicada stickers

27. cicada necklace

28. lantern sticker 

29. cicada sticker

30. framed real cicada 

21. two cicada stickers

22.cicada exoskeleton

23. four cicada stickers

24. praying mantis sticker

25. four cicada stickers

26. tarantula sticker

27. cicada exoskeleton

28. seven cicada stickers

29. random bug stamps 

30. random bug sticker

31. cicada patch 

I really think this is ridiculous. I was very annoyed as a shopper, so how do our potential customers feel? Ans we wonder why we are not making good sales. People can't find our items with this crappy search. 

[PiccoloMiniatureArts]

All the items you have listed concern insects.  The search returns the exact thing you asked for and if there is a limited number of items, returns results that are similar.  It won't just return "cicada stickers". It wants you to buy something, anything.  But having said that, recently I have also found the search results poor. I was unable to find "vintage sewing patterns" the other day. It kept just showing sewing patterns. So I switched vintage to the end of the search string so it was "sewing patterns vintage' and that worked.  It's far too much work for a buyer who is not committed to buying in the first place.  There is also a lot of products you really have to ask whether they are  truly fairly described as handmade.