The Movie Database Support
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Help us out by testing a new search
posted by Travis BellSTAFFMOD on September 15, 2014 at 11:09 AM
Hey guys,
In our quest to have a kick ass search I was wondering if you could help me out by testing some queries.
The newly released account search uses a completely different search back-end than our current main site search. It's been fairly well tested but I would appreciate having some of you throw some queries you would normally use and let me know if you're finding everything your looking for.
What am I looking for?
Your experience while searching for movies and TV shows in your rated, favourite and watch lists. I want you to throw a bunch of queries at the text search and see if the results are what you would expect.
Where do I test this?
Any one of your rated, favourite or watch lists can be searched with a text query. I want you to test this and let me know if you find the items you expect to.
The idea here is that this new search will replace our current search but before I pull the trigger I want to make sure we've covered the important edge cases. This is especially important for any of you non-English users. Obviously you won't be searching the entire DB in these lists so this is a fairly narrow test. Once we decide everything looks good here, I will push this to the website and we'll do this all over again with the entire DB.
Thanks!
Reply by ottobud
on September 15, 2014 at 12:45 PM
I just searched for the movie "It!" from 1967. If I search for simply "It" or "It!", the films shows up near the top of the results. However, if I search for "It! 1967", I get no results at all. It should find the movie if I include the year, right?
Reply by Travis Bell
on September 15, 2014 at 1:31 PM
Hey ottobud,
I do not have years hooked up in any capacity for the query search yet. In the account section it might be a bit different since you can filter by release dates. I will think about how this could work.
Thanks for the feedback!
Reply by riveravaldez
on September 16, 2014 at 1:56 AM
The real-time search is awesome, congrats!
In the other hand: What about searches by director, actor, or year or any other potential field?
Thanks a lot!
Reply by Travis Bell
on September 16, 2014 at 9:52 AM
Hey riveravaldez,
Person search is actually planned, you can already filter by release dates and genres (just click the advanced search link).
What I am looking for specifically is the terms you guys search and whether you're finding the results you are looking for.
Reply by riveravaldez
on September 16, 2014 at 5:21 PM
Oh, ok. Then it works mostly perfectly. For some reason, when I try for instance the words 'home', 'baby', or even 'ba', a sign appears up-right that says 'Failure - There was a probleme executing your search.' (?)
Reply by Travis Bell
on September 18, 2014 at 3:40 PM
Is this still happening? I can't reproduce it so I am just looking for more info.
Thanks!
Reply by riveravaldez
on September 19, 2014 at 4:57 AM
Keep happens with 'home' and 'strange' (?), 'baby' no more. It appears to me to be related to the existence (or not) of a movie with the word or something similar in the list, could it be? This is on Chrome Version 31.0.1636.0 dev over Ubuntu Studio 12.04. Let me know if I can give any other useful information, !
Reply by Tigrecito
on October 15, 2014 at 5:30 AM
is it possible to also search for episodes? I think this would be perfect - because if you search for a movie and see, that´s already entered as episode of a series maybe double content could be avoided !