IMDb Advanced Search Redesign

@plur62​ Thanks, yes, this is a known bug (see earlier in the thread) and we are working on a fix. 

@plur62​ This has now been fixed.  Thanks again for the problem report. 

Yes, it's under Page Topics:

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?has=awards

@Aspief​ Location search is still available — it is a topic search on the advanced search page so that you can combine other search criteria with the location search.  Please see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/discover-watch/using-the-advanced-search-feature/GLUEUYWPQNPTEVPU?ref_=helpsrall#keyword for more details.  

For example, movies shot in NYC in the 1960s -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=1960-01-01,1969-12-31&locations=New%20York%20City@@@%20New%20York@@@%20USA

Hope this helps. 

@plur62​ We are not sure what you mean, sorry.  The above is the filter arrow (as used on /name/ pages and other locations on the site to add/remove filters to the current view).  The way to reach the top of the page in the advanced search results (and elsewhere) is via the “Back to top” link, as in:

If you are not seeing it, please see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/common-issues/why-is-imdb-displaying-differently-on-my-browser/GF2ZAR69V859XLHF

Hope this helps. 

@Col_Needham​ Sorry, I think it's actually the "see results" button, which is yellow, before it was visible when we passed the first 50 results (or before 50, I'm not sure), it appears when we scroll up a bit, so we can change at any time search mode, but now it's gone, so we have to go back to the top of the page to do it.

I'm talking about the mobile version of the site, I haven't checked how it is on the desktop version.

This is how it looks, no see results button visible

@plur62​ Thanks for the details.  The mobile site and desktop are essentially the same these days, other than necessary differences in layout due to screen size (that’s one of the advantages of the new technology — we do not have to build everything twice).  We are not aware of any changes here, sorry, and we are not sure why either the filter button or the see results button would make sense in this context — there’s already a “Back to top” which gets you easily back to where you need to be to adjust the search parameters anyway. 

Are you not seeing the “Back to top” button? If not, please can you try with a different browser and then let us know the phone and browser combinations which you have tried.  We assume you have a standard installation and you are not modifying pages with plug-ins (especially ad blockers) as these may incorrectly hide the button. 

@gino_misanthrop_d_angelo​ Thanks for the problem report, so just to confirm, the following produces the error -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?role=nm0001076&adult=include&sort=your_rating_date,asc

Does this work -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?role=nm0001076&my_ratings=restrict&adult=include&sort=your_rating_date,asc

How about -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?my_ratings=restrict&sort=your_rating_date,desc

hi col, thanks for your reply, all of them resulted in an error

@gino_misanthrop_d_angelo​ Thanks for confirming; one last thing to try -- please can you open an incognito / private browsing window, login again there, and try the links?  

@gino_misanthrop_d_angelo​  Thanks — this is helpful and we will pass this along to the search team. 

@timquo

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https://www.imdb.com/search/title/

Page Topics
Only includes titles with the selected topics
Trivia
[ Wilhelm's scream ]
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?trivia=Wilhelm%27s%20scream : 983

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@ACT_1​ 

Thank you very much for your reply - I could not find this item on my own.

It's certainly better than nothing. But it's something impossible to work with - the previous version of the design gave a list of facts at once.  The search did not bring up movies, but the trivia facts themselves.

In your proposed version, if I need to read the trivia about Wilhelm's scream in the movie Titanic, then after finding the movie in the search, I:

- go to the movie page, scroll to the section "trivia"

- search the page for the words I need and,

- if the trivia is not found, then I need to expand the facts with the button "spoilers" or "50 more" (in the case of the movie Titanic this button had to be pressed 9 times),

- and then search again.

It's still doable for one movie, but if you have to watch 10 or more — it's a horrible experience. Especially from a phone.

Maybe there is a link somewhere with access to the old search after all?

@ACT_1​ 

Let me add to my previous comment:

Imagine that the user needs to find not only all movies that have a wilhelm scream, but also write out the timecodes of each scream for each movie.

In the previous version of search, this was a couple minute task. In the current one, it's a couple days work.

Anyway, thank you very much for your reply and help.

@timquo​ Thanks for the feedback. We will be including the text of the topics matched directly in the search results as before (in your example, trivia).  This work is scheduled, however, the launch of the updated lists feature is ahead of it (lists also require support from the search team).  

One of the advantages of folding the topic search into Advanced Title Search (ATS) is that you can also restrict the matching titles by all of the other ATS criteria, whereas before those searches were general across all titles.  For example, you can now search for all movies which involve Arnold Schwarzenegger and the quote “I’ll Be Back” -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&quotes=%E2%80%9Ci%E2%80%99ll%20be%20back%E2%80%9D&role=nm0000216

Hope this helps. 

@timquo​ We will also arrange for an update to the help page which we missed at the launch, sorry. 

@Col_Needham​ Many thanks for the encouraging reply and thanks for the work you've done - can't wait for the updates. BW

@Col_Needham​ Sorry to bother, but are there any updates on the issue I mentioned in my previous message? Yesterday, I tried to find all the trivia about movies that somehow referenced the Statue of Liberty — what would have taken ten minutes in the old design literally took hours. Am I missing something?

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timquo, Mon Apr 08 2024 10:49:58 PM:
In your proposed version, if I need to read the trivia about Wilhelm's scream in the movie Titanic, then after finding the movie in the search, I:

- go to the movie page, scroll to the section "trivia"

- search the page for the words I need and,

- if the trivia is not found, then I need to expand the facts with the button "spoilers" or "50 more" (in the case of the movie Titanic this button had to be pressed 9 times),

- and then search again.

It's still doable for one movie, but if you have to watch 10 or more — it's a horrible experience. Especially from a phone.

@timquo​ We gave an update further down the thread which I will repost here:

The fixes for lists are still on-going, sorry, and the search team is busy fixing issues with the replacement for the filmosearch feature.   All of this is complicated software which involves multiple systems / data types / implementation teams, so it takes time to design, build, test and launch.  We already have the design for this feature, but the other stages are awaiting the teams to be available. Thank you for your patience in the meantime.  

@Caglarerdem​ Thanks for the problem report. This was recently fixed so please can you confirm that the above results are from today and, if so, please provide the URL of the search shown above. 

Reposted

@Col_Needham​  The results above are from today.But I tried many set of filters today so I'm not sure which url belongs to the first screenshot.So, I tried one more time to reply you and here is a new screenshot and a new url. Problem is up to date. With every page reload, a different type of problematic list of movies are yielded.

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=2010-01-01,&num_votes=30000,&certificates=US:R,US:NC-17&primary_language=en&adult=include

@Caglarerdem​ Thanks, this works for our investigation. 

@Caglarerdem​ We are having trouble reproducing the above results, sorry.  Please could you try the suggestions in https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/common-issues/why-is-imdb-displaying-differently-on-my-browser/GF2ZAR69V859XLHF?ref_=helpsect_cons_5_1# and if it is still behaving like this, please let us know which browser(s) you tried on which devices and operating systems.  Thanks. 

@Caglarerdem​ 

I had a similar problem (Chrome browser).

That visual glitch can be fixed by going to chrome://flags, typing Vulkan and enabling that feature.

Chrome browser:

chrome://flags

Vulkan: Enabled

Relaunch

This worked for me.

Thanks @plur62​ 

@Caglarerdem Can you confirm that this was the problem? 

@Col_Needham​

Chrome browser:

chrome://flags

Vulkan: Enabled

Relaunch

I did this for chrome and the result is fine.The yielded list is correct.But I don't know if specifically vulkan solved the issue.It could be a coincidence too.

I now tried advanced search on opera and it is broken.It is fine on Microsoft edge.

  I also checked the article on IMDB help center " Why is IMDb displaying differently on my browser?".

  I will try different approaches in the following week.Observation is necessary for a while i guess.

 Thanks for time and effort to @plur62 and @Col_Needham 

Note: I use Samsung a34 smart phone

In ATS, it's under Page Topics

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?quotes=can%27t%20handle%20the%20truth

@wilderbyfar​ Please see the reply above from @bderoes (thanks) — for additional information on using the new advanced title search, please see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/new-features-updates/advanced-search-redesign/G73SLJ6K33AA6NB5

@Peter_pbn​ This is part of an experiment so it appears your phone is in the test group and your desktop machine is not.  This will equalise again once one version or the other launches.