IMDb Advanced Search Redesign

@Barry777​ The new advanced title search is designed to be backwards compatible with the previous version.  Please can you post the URLs of any broken queries and we will investigate the issues. 

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?

@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.

@plur62​ Sorry about that. The team are aware of the missing historic countries. 

@minalex / @plur62  The historic countries are now available, for example https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?country_of_origin=XWG

Hi @Peter_pbn​ -

Our staff were unable to reproduce the issue, but we are happy to investigate the issue you are experiencing further if you can share some visuals of these occurrences.  Can you take some screenshots the next time you encounter repeated titles in the search?

This is a sorting problem

@Peter_pbn​ I can reproduce the same issue so I will send @Michelle my screen-grab.  Thanks for the problem report. 

@Peter_pbn​ / @BonaFideBOSS  This issue has now been fixed.  Thanks again for the problem report and sorry for the inconvenience. 

@t_peters_6587641​  The current behaviour is intentional, however, if you can provide an example URL (or 2 or 3) showing the problem, we can take a look. 

@Col_Needham​ 

@Torpointman​ Thanks for the problem report.  This is a glitch with advanced name search so we have merged your comment here and let the appropriate team know.

Thanks Col_Needham

@Torpointman​ You hopefully noticed by now, but this bug was fixed a while ago.  Sorry for the delay in the follow-up. 

@truemovie1987​ Thanks for the problem report and sorry for the inconvenience.  We have reported this issue to the appropriate team. 

@truemovie1987​ The fix for this is now live.  Thanks again for the problem report and sorry for the inconvenience. 

Hi @Vande ,

Thank you for your report of this issue. I have filed a ticket (ref. #D106712688) with the appropriate team for investigation.

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

@Vande​ This has been fixed now.  Thanks again for the problem report and sorry for the inconvenience. 

@zennnon11​ 

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

@zennnon11​ / @Capamaroux  Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the problem reports. This is a newly introduced bug and we have opened a ticket with the appropriate team to investigate (ticket reference #D106753396). 

Seems ok now. Thanks!

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

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.

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.

@mark_w_h9oezt9satnxv​ If you tap the year in your Android calendar, you should get a scrollable menu of years from which you can quickly navigate to any year.

On your laptop you should be able to type the date as before (depending upon your operating system and browser).

Hope this helps. 

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. 

@Shum​ This should not be required at all, please see our advice above -> https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-advanced-search-redesign/654281ee477f6f20ed824a5f?commentId=656c531580fb9d7556b12c51&replyId=656dd0d780fb9d7556b16045 

If you tap the year in the calendar, you should get a scrollable menu of years from which you can quickly navigate to any year.

On your laptop you should be able to type the date as before (depending upon your operating system and browser).

Hope this helps. 

@eps_00​ Yes, you can do this, but it does (currently) require a small manual edit to the search results URL.  Start with the results for 2023 Indian feature films (ie: the opposite of what you want). For example:

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&genres=!documentary&release_date=2023-01-01,2023-12-31&sort=user_rating,desc&num_votes=5000,&countries=IN 

then simply edit the URL to insert an exclamation mark in front of the "IN" in the "countries=" parameter:

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&genres=!documentary&release_date=2023-01-01,2023-12-31&sort=user_rating,desc&num_votes=5000,&countries=!IN 

Note that this might exclude Indian co-productions so you can always use this instead. 

One of the advantages of the new Advanced Title Search is that you can still easily edit the other search parameters independently, for example, raising or lowering the number of votes in the above queries or adding new ones. 

Hope this helps.  

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

@DarthRobin360​  Thanks for the problem report and sorry for the inconvenience. This should be a quick fix -- it is a bug introduced as part of a fix for a larger certificates issue.  We are letting the appropriate team know. 

In the meantime, you can still search via PG-13 by picking PG and then manually editing the URL of the search, so for example, starting with 

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?certificates=US:PG 

and then editing the URL to be:

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?certificates=US:PG-13 

Thanks for the quick and helpful response.

@DarthRobin360​ The missing PG-13 option has been restored to the form.  Thanks agan for the problem report and sorry for the inconvenience. 

@Marco​ Thanks for the problem report.  This is a new bug and it has been reported to the team. 

Hi @Marco​ -

This issue has now been fixed!  Thanks again for reporting!

@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?

@Marco​ Thanks for the feedback, yes, this is on the list to address as the same issue came up in relation to advanced title search topic results.  We know how this is going to work and how the data is going to be included in the results -- just need the team to build it now.  We are making progress against the backlog of issues as you can see here. 

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