So, a little more investigation has revealed interesting, but seemingly useless, bits of information about just how much rhapsody search sucks.
Example 1: The Pogues, “Fiesta”
If you go to the Pogues page, it’s one of their top tracks, but if you search by title for “Fiesta”, it isn’t in the first of several pages….BUT, if you search for “Fiesta God”, it’s one of three results returned. More telling, when searching for just “Fiesta”, you’ll notice that it’s prioritizing albums where the word is also in the title. So, now I understand why the results are so crappy, and how to get around their terrible search. If only that information could make it to a dev at rhapsody, instead of being stonewalled by some tech support idiot that’s never even logged into the service.