IMDb search results

The search algorithm is also just terrible. It needs to be geared towards what I actually type.

A few examples. I just tried to look up King of the Texas Rangers which was an old serial.

1st result....King of the Hill 
2nd result...Lord of the Rings: Return of the King


 I actually had to click on More Popular matches to get to the title I searched for and it's just ridiculous. Even if it's an exact match I still have to click again and if I misspelled it by one letter then i'm really messed up.

The other thing that is now shot is my ability to search for episodes on the start page and getting the episodes is now pretty much shot because of this. There are just way too many clicks.  I used to when I typed in Wyatt Earp The Bribe into the starting search box it brought it up right away. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and the episode The Bribe. Now if I type in Wyatt Earp The Bribe into a search engine I get a link to The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and if I try to narrow it down by episodes.....I don't even get The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and The Bribe as a choice. 

Obviously whomever designed to do this search engine algorithm change with this website relied way too much on popularity and not enough on what the person searched for. Something needs to be badly adjusted by that. If you want to list close popular results than whatever but the results that should be first  and up top in anything should be what you actually typed. I've actually had 6 different people e-mail me complaining about the search engine and the redesign and honestly there shouldn't be a big trailer preview on the primary actor's page, if people want to see them, they can click on trailers. 

There are some good things about it. I like the ability to separate them by genre but if you do that you really should factor the number of episodes into the overall total. James Arness for example. it says he did 25 westerns. In reality he did 635 Gunsmoke alone. Might be nice if when you do that genre separation if you list up there the overall total of say westerns than movies, tv series, and number of tv episodes to give a far better picture of the career.  

It's just a bit of constructive criticism but also realize not to come off as egotistical but this is coming from somebody who has a masters degree in marketing and is about to complete his PhD in computer science. It's just needs a bit of tweaking search engine wise where it's not based on a fuzzy search logic.