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Wednesday, November 1st, 2023

IMDb Advanced Search Redesign

We are excited to announce IMDb’s Advanced Search redesign! Customers are now able to leverage all three sub-searches (Name, Title, Collaborations) on a single search page, making it easier to update search queries and navigate to desired results. The refreshed search is meant to enhance the IMDb experience for all customers worldwide, improving the discovery and navigation with easier access to celebrity, movie, and TV content on any device. The updated experience reflects feedback and suggestions from customers as well as in-depth research. For more information about the redesign you can review our FAQ, and for more information on how to use the new Advanced Search feature you can find details on our Help Guide. We hope you enjoy this latest improvement, and thank you for continuing to make IMDb the world's most trusted source for movie, TV, and entertainment content. - The IMDb team

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This is awful!! ROLL IT BACK! SO MANY QUERIES BROKEN, HORRIBLE! GIVE US THE OLD ADVANCED SEARCH BACK!!! I will stop using the site if we don't get it back since that was the best part of it.

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Hi. You say this is designed to be backwards compatible with the previous version, yet my saved bookmarks take me straight to the new version. Could there not just be a link on the Advanced Search page, that takes you back to the old (and better) version?

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In the list of countries former countries do not exist and the old codes (XWG, SUHH etc) don't work. Thus, if you want to search German films or Soviet films there are no results or options. See also Yugoslavian and Czechoslovakian cinema. Also, I would recommend going back to the previous compact display of films, the one where the name of director and 4 protagonists appear. It is essential when you check quickly lists of films. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Problem with Search Results (Country)

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@minalex​ Soviet Union exists, it is located between South Korea and Spain. Yugoslavia is at the bottom of the list. East and West Germany are gone. It can be set to search for titles from 1949 to 1990 - German language - Release date from the oldest date (most popular titles are usually co-productions, there are a lot of American ones). That is the only alternative for now.

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I sometimes see repeated titles in searches after pressing "50 more". In this search sorted by my own ratings, for example, Apocalypse Now appeared at 29 as the first title rated 9, but then also appeared at 101. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&genres=drama&sort=my_ratings,desc

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This is a sorting problem

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Could it be that with the new search, "Documentary" is no longer available as a Title Type, only as a Genre? Previously, there was always a duplication. This disrupts many of my search links that I regularly evaluate in my Excel sheet. Now I have to always remove "Documentary" because it is combined with other genres as an AND operation. Previously, it was always an OR operation with other Title Types. Is this intentional, or will it be fixed? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled New Advanced Title Search

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@Col_Needham​ https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_movie,tv_special,tv_miniseries,documentary,short,video,tv_short,music_video&languages=mk&view=simple&sort=num_votes,desc This is a link I use, for example, to display all movies in the Macedonian language. Previously, over 800 titles were displayed as it searched for all selected "title types." Now, I only see all Macedonian documentaries because "documentary" is now only considered as an additional filter for the genre "documentary." I now get only 192 titles. Of course, I can simply modify all my links to remove "documentary" from the "title types." Just to clarify for me again: "documentary" is now only used as a genre, not as a "title type." And this is not an error in transitioning to the new design of "advanced search," but it is intentional, correct? Or asked differently: Are all "title types = documentaries" now "feature films" with the genre "documentary" since the update? Has the "title type" "documentary" been completely eliminated?

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Home page Menu - select Birthday. Enter today's date. On the opened page instead of Popularity select Birth Date. It displays 1 -50 of 1,502. Go to end of page to select 50 more -nothing happens In Birth Date - only the first 50 are ever deleted. You have no access to the remainder of the entries Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Glitch on IMDB website

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Thanks Col_Needham

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Hi I am trying to search for a films based on the German certificates (DE:18) or other certificates, but it does not work It worked previously https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?certificates=DE:18 Thank you Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Searching by certificates does not work

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If I wanted to look and see who has passed away this year, I would go to this page: Death date between 2023-01-01 and 2023-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) (imdb.com) If I want to see more than 50, I click on "50 more" at the bottom. But say I then want to reorder it to see the order in which they have died, rather than who strangers liked the most. So I click on "Sort by" at the top and change Popularity to Death Date: Death date between 2023-01-01 and 2023-12-31 (Sorted by Death date Ascending) (imdb.com) Now, if I want to see more than 50, I click on "50 more" at the bottom, and instead of showing me 50 more, the "50 more" just disappears and still shows me 50. If you wanted to copy Google and get rid of pages on search results, instead displaying them as one long list, you should have at the least tested to see if it worked first. I'd personally rather just have the pages as before, as it is less strain on display resources. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled STAFF: Name Searches No Longer Work When Reordered

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@Vande​ I feel the same way. Its way too convoluted now.

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I've bookmarked a search with all the parameters i wanted but since today the watchlist parameter (lists=!watchlist (not in watchlist) or list=watchlist) doesn't work if loaded from a bookmark. It will work if you manually checked it on the search page, but if you do a reload/refresh of the page, that parameters will be removed.

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@zennnon11​ Same problem. Really annoying. Now all my IMDB bookmarks are useless.

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Seems ok now. Thanks!

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@zennnon11​ / @Capamaroux The bug has been resolved. Thanks again for the problem report and sorry for the inconvenience.

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There's no way to enter a query by year other than to go back each month to get there. Easy if you're going to January 2022, but if I want to see my ratings from a long time ago forca particular calender year, it would take forever to get there. I used the old format on my phone several months ago, and now it's changed. Any way of changing this option back? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Advanced Title Search

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It looks different on different devices, but you should probably be able to click the month/year and select what you want. If not, please specify device/browser and perhaps post a screenshot. There was some discussion about this here.

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Not going to waste my time. Only the current month calendar comes up as an option on my android phone. I'll try it on a laptop and if it works, collect the info from there, but a busy life doesn't need additional slowdowns like this when it was fine before. Typical I.T. nonsense. Moving on.

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Thanks. Tried that and it worked. Also found ways of doing it on the app, but I can't copy and paste the info from there.

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It takes hundreds of clicks on your calendar to get to a previous year like 1938 for example. Previously I could just write out the date. Not an improvement.

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WOW....just WOW!! Sorry IMDB but the new look/design is a major step backwards as far as I'm concerned. The old look and layout was much better and for the life of me I cannot understand WHY it was changed or what was wrong with it in the first place. I had saved several different search categories in a-z format (Action,Sci-fi etc) as favourites in my bookmarks. I had been using that way of searching for a few years now, but the new format has wiped all that out. I had 10 categories and had reached "H" in all of them. I now cannot redo my search criteria as the results do not come back in page format, and I have to scroll way down the list to reach the point I had reached prior to the new format. You cannot save that "page" as a bookmark as it is now one continuous page that starts at the beginning when you log back in. This site used to be the best to use, to search for stuff , but if you cannot save that search at a specific point, to come back to later, then I'm afraid there's no point (for me anyway), and will have to go elsewhere. I really don't want to be continuously scrolling down my search results to find the point I last left at. Please at least give us back separate pages for search results, that can be saved or bookmarked.

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I really like the new imdb advance research layout, it's easy, quick and with a lot of filters. My question is: is it possible to exclude indian movies from the filter? For example, it's impossible to see a rational ranking of the top voted 2023 movies because there are super overrated indian movies in the list with illogical votes. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Imdb Advance Research indian movies problem

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Perfect! Thank you very much, you are the best!!

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I notice the advanced search page has been updated and the option to search for PG13 is missing. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled PG13 missing from advanced serach

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The option to search for PG13 is missing.

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Thanks for the quick and helpful response.

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Does the search within trivia items for people work? No matter what word I use to search, I get a list of all 13,573,118 people in the database. When searching information via other "page topics" for people (like date of birth, date of death, quotes), it actually does work for me. Am I missing something here? Example:

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@Michelle​ Thanks for the fix. However, it worked (much) better in the previous search. In the previous search, if one searched for a certain term (for example: arrested), the list of results would directly show the specific trivia items with the searched term. In the new search, the results "only" show the people that have a trivia item with the searched term. This means that information that used to be there at a glance (except for some scrolling and clicking after result number 50), now takes much more clicks. (in the case of the term "arrested" it takes 1.544 more clicks (!) because that's the number of people who currently have a trivia item containing the word arrested). Can this be fixed as well please?

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@Col_Needham​ Thanks for the swift reply Col! Good to hear it will be fixed.

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@Col_Needham: Is there perhaps an update regarding this issue?

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@Marco thanks for raising the issue and checking back in. The item is in our backlog as we work on other issues--we understand that it's important to your usage for scanning trivia results in Search and we will update here when we have more to share.

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@SAR: Thanks for the response. I'm glad it's still on IMDb's radar :)