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Advanced Search does not find alternate titles
This is a fundamental flaw in the "Advanced Search" function:
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/
For instance, if you look for "Merrie Melodies" as title and "Short" as genre:
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title=merrie%20melodies&title_type=short
The result is zero, when it should bring up dozens upon dozens of shorts whose alternate title is "Merrie Melodies Season X Number Y" and so on.
Paradoxically, if you do a simple search on the main IMDb page, all those shorts do appear...
https://www.imdb.com/find/?q=merrie%20melodies
...but of course, they cannot be ordered by release date, or alphabetically, or any of the other useful options that "Advanced Search" provides.
Ergo, the "Advanced Search" function should be improved in order to make it find "alternate titles" and not just "display/original titles" as it functions now.
"Like all workaholics, I am profoundly lazy." --Aki Kaurismäki
Kristin
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5 days ago
This sounds more of a fault than an idea for an improvement,
I can't believe it is by design that the
"title name" search in "Advanced title search"
does not give results for alternative titles.
Can I ask Tonio_Fraga , did you add this to the "idea" section yourself, or did you report it as a Problem and IMDb moved it here because IMDb checked it and found it is "by design" it works like this?
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