IMDb Advanced Search Redesign

@jamesmmm​ Thanks for the problem report, which we have flagged for the team.  In the meantime, to perform a David Harris (II) colaboration search, enter the text:

nm0364594

into the collaborations search form and it will populate with his name (from the URL of his name page). 

Hope this helps. 

@Col_Needham​ This is working now for David Harris (II). It is an improvement from before as you can see some information about the person you have the option of selecting. It was pot luck before. It would be even better if, having selected one person, you could then open their IMDb page for assurance in the same way that you can when adding credits to a title as a contributor.

@jean_morel​ Thanks for the feedback, however, company pages were replaced with advanced title search (ATS) results six years ago in 2017, so this is not a new change, sorry.  

The new company search results are actually much more customisable, because previously all you could see were the company credits across all titles.  Thanks to the new ATS, you can now filter the company filmography via full range of attributes (as well as continuing to sort via multiple options too).  For example, previously looking at credits for Warner Bros. at https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0002663 you were stuck with a view of some 11,000+ titles, whereas now via the options on the left of the page, you can filter to reach, say, Warner Bros. movies of the 1930s, sorted by number of ratings -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&companies=co0002663&release_date=1930-01-01,1939-12-31&sort=num_votes,desc 

Hope this helps. 

Because outside of IMDbPro, company pages have for a long time merely been search results.

@Col_Needham​ Thanks for the reply, but this is simply not true.

Yes, company pages were changed to search results six years ago, but these were presented with the Company name right at the top, crucially with its country code.

So in your Warner Bros. example, you would have "Warner Bros. [us]" in big and bold right there at the top. Whereas if you were looking at https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0920944 you would have "Warner Bros. [au]". Knowing what country a company is from is essential.

Moreover, once on that page you could click a button that brought you straight to the proper, relevant IMDB Pro company page, an extremely useful feature which has been removed with this alleged "improvement".

Yes, that's definitely one drawback to the information presentation in the new design of IMDb's advanced search: it doesn't clearly indicate the query parameters in the title and subject heading of the HTML output like the information presentation in the design from the last generation platform.

@jean_morel​ Thanks for the more specific details.  The country code and the link to IMDbPro are a miss in the requirements which we have passed along to the search team. 

@Col_Needham​ Well hopefully it will be fixed then. I must say it's a welcome change to actually respond to and act upon feedback for once.

Hi @jean_morel​ -

Quick update, we are in progress for fixing both of the reported issues (missing country codes and link to IMDbPro).

@jean_morel​ Just confirming that this has been fixed now.  For example, see your earlier example now https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0920944

@bernard_o_neill_20latlac541e4​  Thanks for the feedback. There are other customers who prefer matches to include series in the results even if the people did not work directly upon the same episode.   The new advanced search enables each customer choose for themselves.  To restrict the results to exact TV-episodes, simply click the “Title Type” menu on the left and select “TV episodes” (and/or any other title types which you would like to include):

For example -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?role=nm1089991,nm0702841&title_type=tv_episode

Hope this helps. 

Oh, I see that now. I guess that's workable, just without the shared credits all in one go as it was before. Thanks.

@Mosho_nz​ You can still access this (and more) by clicking the “(i)” icon to the right of each search result:

Hope this helps. 

Previously just by using "find in page" I can search a certain actor/s or director/s I'm looking for. It is time consuming to click on every (i) button to see the cast. It was more helpful in the previous way. I hope you consider that.

Thanks for other improvements though.

Yes, that is a good point about the loss of a great feature, Mosho.

The way the new platform works has had a generally-consistent behavioral theme, in that much data is hidden away behind extra clicks that generate extra web traffic. The only thing that differed was the recent change to the "where to watch" menu that appears on title pages. I've complained about this, but I don't think Col wants to move away from this basic pattern that is considered "modern" as if the old way wasn't also modern.

@de_crecy​ Thanks for the feedback.  For now, you can achieve this by manually adding &count=250 to the end of the URL of any results. For example -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=2023-01-01,2023-11-16&count=250 

@Col_Needham thats great, thanks.

@yacine​ You can still access additional information about each title without leaving the search results by clicking the “(i)” icon to the right of each search result:

Hope this helps. 

Didn't that become a hidden parameter at some point? I mean, I remember seeing somebody on here inquire about how the production status parameter had been removed from the Advanced Title Search (ATS) of the last generation platform.

@jeorj_euler​ Yes, this is correct, support for production status was removed in 2017.

@Bingmapsfan​ Yup, noticed this too just today

@Bingmapsfan​ Hyphenating the multi-word keywords seems to work.

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?role=&sort=release_date,asc&keywords=music-video

versus

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?role=&sort=release_date,asc&keywords=music%20video

@bderoes​ But we shouldn't have to. In the prior iteration, not putting hyphens worked perfectly. Not to mention the fact that countries like West Germany, East Germany and possibly more are simply not there.

I mentioned this three weeks ago without reply, so I guess they don't care to change it.

@Peter_pbn​ Sorry about the miss with this issue on the other thread (and likewise sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime, @Bingmapsfan, @jean_morel and @bderoes).  

I am not 100% sure what happened as the team reported that all feedback was being examined and any bugs were being logged. I therefore expect there’s already a work item awaiting the bandwidth to address the problem — there are several fixes still in-flight at the moment, including the company search issue reported above by @jean_morel 

As you can imagine, ATS is one of the most complex parts of the site, and even with extensive testing, we missed some of the use cases in the requirements, sorry (and by “we” I also mean “me” as a very heavy user of ATS myself).

@Peter_pbn​ I should also have written above — I will flag this to the search team to be sure this time, of course. 

@bderoes Thanks for the advice. I will use this method for the time being, but I do hope the original issue will be fixed shortly.

I always thought all these IMDb redesigns were done by a team at Amazon who very rarely used the site itself. It seems I was wrong.

Hi @Bingmapsfan​ -

Thanks for your report, we have a team working on the issue and will confirm here once this has been fixed.

@Bingmapsfan​ / @Peter_pbn​ / @jean_morel / @bderoes  the keyword spacing issue has now been fixed and multi-word keywords can be entered with spaces or hyphens. 

@plur62​

Confirming your bug report, and adding that the same thing doesn't happen when I add &count=250 to the url: only get the first 250.

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&sort=year,asc&count=250

@bderoes​ / @plur62  Thanks for the problem report.  The issue here is with the sort order "Year" which I am not sure should even be listed any longer.   I will check with the team, but the "Release Date" sort achieves the same sort and yet does not display the same issue, so we recommend using that as "Year" is likely to be removed. 

I should have included a working link, sorry -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&sort=release_date,asc 

Hi @plur62​ -

Just confirming that we have a team working on the issue you reported and we will confirm here once this has been fixed.

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

@rogerlanders951​ There is still a Compact view, but it's not very compact: only 4 titles per screen on a 15.6" laptop (at 100%; 3 titles with 125%). Contrast that with 7 titles on a List Edit (5 at 125%) and 13 titles on a Seen page (10.5 at 125%). 

I think in the former Compact search results we had a flag off to the right for adding into Watchlist. I just put 161 titles into Watchlist using the new search, and it was certainly more tedious than before.

(Somewhere on the forum is likely an Idea requesting the ability to bulk-add search results to a list.)

You can display 250 at a time by adding 

&count=250 

to the url after selecting your search.

I'd recommend opening links into a new tab/window so you preserve your search results display. Right-click on the link, or middle-click.

I left my phone for about 10 minutes while I went to do something, I was somewhere around 1000 results and when I came back the page refreshed itself and returned to the first 50 results. :D

@plur62​ Sorry, but this is not something set on the IMDb side.  You might need to check your phone / browser settings. 

Yeah, that's probably due to the silly way that the memory manager in the Android OS works, plur62.

@bderoes​ Thanks for the help! 

I also miss that option. In my experience, it was easy to find out if I have been on a title, name or whatever, and I can decide to click on the same thing again, or not at least move on to those I hadn't clicked on. Now, thanks to the removal in the redesign, I can't always tell if I have been on that element or not, especially when the advanced search hit many hundreds or thousands, and several movies, people and companies have exactly same name.

I'm sorry to tell, but the recent redesigns are a shame for removing useful elements we have been liking for many years until now, and for making things more cumbersome with more clicks and stuff for us users who've been crying out for simple use of the actual site.