Item Not Showing Up In Main Search Unless I Add Additional Search Terms

[nubble_lighthouse_postcards]

So I just listed a basketball magazine from The Philippines with Michael Jordan on the cover.  But when I search for "Michael Jordan", the item does not show up in the main search.  But If I also use any other word in the title such as "Scottie" or "Pippen" or "Philippines", it shows up right away.  But is should be able to be found by only searching for "Michael Jordan" instead of having to add additional search terms.  I have noticed that for some of my other listings as well.  Why is this happening?  Here is the link for the item:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/194950633021?hash=item2d63f6963d:g:R1sAAOSwMHZgXTBZ

[pjcdn2005]

When I searched for Michael Jordan the search was automatically put into the trading card category.  It's possible that it did the same for you but when you added other information it searched all categories.

[nubble_lighthouse_postcards]

LOL, why would it automatically be put into the trading card category?  Geez, what good does that do for anyone?

[coolections]

There are over 200,000 Michael Jordan items listed. How did you manage to spend that much time looking through all those to know yours is not included? Also, no buyer will ever in a million years search like that. Don't worry, if someone wants a Michael Jordan magazine they will include the word magazine into the search bar.

[eburtonlab]

why would it automatically be put into the trading card category?

eBay will steer a search into a particular category based on the keywords used. Most likely eBay has noticed that when a user searches using the keywords Michael Jordan and no other search keywords, most of the time the user winds up looking for trading cards rather than magazines.