# Search engine not quite there yet **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [April 12, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/search-engine-not-quite-there-yet/232406 "2018-04-12T18:58:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![IsaiahSellassie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@IsaiahSellassie](https://forums.plex.tv/u/IsaiahSellassie)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/search-engine-not-quite-there-yet/232406/1 "2018-04-12T18:58:08Z")
I am a new user of the Plex server. I am very happy with it generally. My less tech savvy family members can use it easily. That is a major boon. Needless to say, I love the price tag! The only disappointment has been the search engine, and the way search results are presented. I have a lot of music, and I am used to the search tool in Foobar2000, which is superbly good and fast. When I tried searching in Plex I found the list was not exhaustive. There are files that were missed out. Also, the results were not presented in a very intuitive way. For example, if there are 35 albums for a searched artist, why use up display space showing multiple files from the same album? Only 3 or 4 albums were visible, and the rest had to be scrolled for. And, even by scrolling around I didn’t find the one I was looking for. If the search engine would become more thorough, and presentation of search results would become smarter, I would be very likely to plunk down the $5/mo—just as thanks to the developers, even though I do not need any premium features. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 12:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/search-engine-not-quite-there-yet/232406/2 "2020-01-08T00:54:30Z")