Incorrect search result ordering for Mr. & Mrs. Smith search

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posted by rmzg
STAFFMOD
on januar 16, 2014 at 1:29 PM

Using the movie search API with the query string "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" limited to year 2005 I get results in the following order:

'original_title' => 'Mr. Christmas',
'original_title' => 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith',
'original_title' => 'Mr. Nice Guy',

And so on. This seems like a really incorrect search result ordering, is there any chance this can be fixed?

(Side note, performing the search with query_type => ngram does indeed give the correct movie as the first result but it follows it with a number of apparently random movie suggestions which makes me hesitant to rely on it for a large corpus of searches)

Also the when you search via the actual website for 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' it sure doesn't return 'Mr. Christmas' !

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Travis Bell je odgovoril

STAFFMOD

dne januar 16, 2014 ob 1:34 PM

Hi rmzg,

Are you making sure to escape the ampersand?

http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=###&query=Mr.+%26+Mrs.+Smith

and

http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=###&query=Mr.+%26+Mrs.+Smith&search_type=ngram

Provide proper results.

rmzg je odgovoril

STAFFMOD

dne januar 16, 2014 ob 1:43 PM

Wow, thanks. I guess what's what I get for trusting third party libraries!

Travis Bell je odgovoril

STAFFMOD

dne januar 16, 2014 ob 1:44 PM

;)

If possible, you should contact the developer of the library and/or perhaps contribute a fix for it.

Cheers.

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