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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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9 months ago

In the Advanced title search we want to see very important things: The director + genres. You don't know how frustrating it is to click the ⓘ button for every title of your search only to see a simple thing like a genre. Please bring it back because it was there before the changes, or at least add an option of what information would a user like to see. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Please Please Please bring it back

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Thanks for this feedback. I'll relay it to the team to consider for planning purposes.

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7 months ago

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thavens

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7 months ago

Is it possible to search by subgenre in Advanced Search? I want to combine with other terms as well, like Filming Location. I tried searching for subgenre as a keyword but it misses some and includes some without that subgenre tag. Thanks!

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Col_Needham

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Please provide specific examples — for which subgenres (Interests) did you search and which titles were missing, ideally include the Advanced Search URLs which illustrate the problem? Interests are largely built upon plot keywords so your plot keyword searches should work generally, however, there are some corner cases which might be in play here. One way around any issues is to locate the Interest which you want to include via https://www.imdb.com/interest/all/ then click on the “All” link for the Interest — this will open an Advanced Title Search for that Interest which you can then refine further with locations etc by the filters in the lefthand side. For example, if you were looking for “Coming of Age” titles, with New York City locations, start at https://www.imdb.com/interest/in0000073/ — click “All” to reach — https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_movie,tv_special,video,tv_series,tv_miniseries&interests=in0000073 — then adjust the filters to reach — https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&locations=New%20York%20City@@@%20New%20York@@@%20USA&interests=in0000073

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crazynoob159

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6 months ago

So are we ever going to get pagination back? I haven't used the advanced search feature since it was changed from pagination to infinite scroll. It's been well over a year and pagination has yet to return as an option. Not being able to skip to or save a certain point in your search keeps me from using the advanced search feature at all.

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Hi @crazynoob159 thanks for checking back on pagination, it's helpful to know how important it is to your experience. I'll share your feedback on the importance of the feature with the team for future planning purposes.

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6 months ago

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3 months ago

Advance Title Search has become one of my favorite things about IMDb, but I am having problems maneuvering though, and back-and-foth within the listings. With long lists of titles, it is very difficult to move back and forth. The “add 50' in insufficient and time-consuming. Before, the first page was 1-thu-50, the second 51-thu-100, etc., and one could easily move from page to page, and even “jump sound” by altering page numbers in the URL. Now, each “fifty” is just added onto the previous fifty, which can add up to many additions when maneuvering an ever-increasing list of titles. The previous programming was much easier to utilize. Also, when one hits the back arrow to go to the previous page, you are not sent to the previous fifty, but to the middle of the first fifty listed titles. Is there a way to “go back” to the 1-50, 51-100, etc. pagation, and to the backward arrow going to the previous page rather than the middle of the first page. Perhaps this has been discussed elsewhere. The current programming is very annoying and certainly interfers with contributing. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation Link : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/advance-title-search-maneuvering-difficulties/68591b55ec5a0f263dbf3234 Title : Advance Title Search maneuvering difficulties

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@bradley_kent There are indeed requests for pagination in ATS results. We still have on-going work to migrate other parts of the site to the new technology before returning to ATS, sorry. We did add pagination to lists a while ago, although obviously that does not help here in the short term, it does at least show that paginated ATS results are possible. In the meantime, to workaround the limitation which you highlight above, we recommend you open each title in a new browser tab. This way the ATS results page remains stable & open at the right point from which you are working, and yet you can update the data for the titles in their own individual browser tab. Hope this helps.

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3 months ago

Char623

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3 months ago

I miss paginal option on search. I miss being able to navigate by page when searching. It was easier than having to scroll and wait for it to load every time I left the search. Please put it back. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation Link : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-paginal-option-back-to-search-results/686fa4c37f4d2f434cf0193e Title : Add paginal option back to search results.

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@Char623 thanks for your feedback and helping us understand how you use page-based navigation. We have catalogued this issue for our team to review for future improvements.

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3 months ago

FeRDNYC

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2 months ago

Apologies if this has already been brought up, but... say I'm on Will Smith's artist page (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000226/) and I choose the "Collaborations" item from the "Related" section of "All Topics". The URL for that is https://www.imdb.com/search/common/?name=nm0000226&ref_=nm_ov_at_rel_1 which (as you'll note) includes the IMDb name ID for Will Smith, `nm0000226`. So why, when the Collaborations search page loads, is Will Smith's name not pre-filled into the "Name 1" field? What's the point of linking to Collaborations from each artist's name page, if you're going to discard — not even discard, IGNORE, since it's right there in the URL — the information about what name was being viewed and make users type it in again? (Assuming they even remember what name they were viewing, and know how to spell it correctly enough for the system to match it. I mean, isn't the whole POINT of accessing the search page through an artist's name page, that you don't _have_ to remember the exact format of their name?)

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