to improve search

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to improve search

Post by gabba2k7 »

hi

is that me or do everyone get dozens & even hundreds of films when searching for films with some popular words

can there be precise search (like googles "film_name" ) so you get only 1 film (or several, but not 500 as in my last search) or year be added to narrow the search down

regards.

[addition] and search by imdb could be made allowing all sorts of combinations
full link
tt + number
number
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Re: to improve search

Post by gabba2k7 »

example
i was searching through some horror movies
and decided to find
The Devil Complex
got 495+ results.

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Re: to improve search

Post by mpowell »

Yeah, the search functionality is something we hope to totally overhaul someday soon. You're right that searches with very common words (like "devil") should stop after like... 100 results.

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Re: to improve search

Post by livelove »

mpowell wrote:searches with very common words (like "devil") should stop after like... 100 results.
Why should it stop? The results are paginated anyway ...

Support++ for year+filmtitle

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Re: to improve search

Post by gabba2k7 »

today i found out that punctuation marks matter when searching

not sure that it is a good idea...

i printed Mission Impossible and got 3 results. none of them were related to relevant action movies

later i discovered that the title has ":" in it

Mission: Impossible

so with colon everything is being searched well.

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Re: to improve search

Post by mpowell »

Thanks for reporting this! We notice the same thing... the colon seems not to play well with our search. We've filed a bug to improve this, and will let you know once it's working!

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Re: to improve search

Post by gabba2k7 »

mpowell wrote: ... to impove...

great.

what about the first issue with multiple results and common worlds?
undoubtedly a much bigger issue

as a remedy - search by imdb id could be implemented (as long as all movies/series are required to have it)

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Re: to improve search

Post by livelove »

gabba2k7 wrote:as a remedy - search by imdb id could be implemented
Criticker can do this already.
How exactly have you done your imdb id search that failed ?

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Way to sort results by release year and/or exclude words from search

Post by Mist600 »

Suggest:
1) Way to sort results by release year

2) Exclude words from search


Personally, that would solve my search problems, I think.

Most often I am looking for a recent released film with a common word in the title like "snow". I then get pages of obscure results. If I could place the most recently released at the top of the results that would likely solve it.

Knocking out incorrect results by adding "-XXXXXXX" would also help.. So "devil -inside -devils" stops 'Devil Inside' & 'The Devils'
from cluttering up the results when they arent the film I'm looking for.


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PS. Is this post showing up?

A week ago, :o I spent an hour+ reading thru feature request & bug report threads & chipping in with my suggestions. NONE of my contributions ahow up when I search for 'Yours Posts' or 'New Posts' in forum. That is sad. Hope they didnt all fall down an electronic black hole. :cry:

ADDED LATER: Yeah it looks like they all did - tip for any new users write ONE post to forums and wait for it to appear BEFORE you write any more. That'll save you a lot of pointless typing ;)
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Re: to improve search

Post by gabba2k7 »

livelove wrote: Criticker can do this already.


indeed. my bad.
worked from 2nd try. (firstly i copied a full link...then only tt{number}

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