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Is there a way to specify part of a search query is the year?

Didn't locate any information on possibilities during my searching so thought I'd check in here.  

What I'd like to do is what you can do on Themovedb.org, specify that part of your search query is the year.  So you could type (Movie/TV Title) y:XXXX and it knows the 4 digits are for honing into the year.Currently including the year will often make the results better but also sometimes makes it worse.  Just to prevent the times it makes it worse, I wanted to see if there was some way to expressly mark something as year in the search similar to TMDB

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I don't know if the formatting makes a difference.

If you click the dropdown in the search bar where it says All, you can find the Advanced Search where you can specify a year range.

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Thanks for the reply . I'm I can do the additional clicking to get the year, was just hoping that there was way to avoid that.   I have set up a script that allows me to highlight a movie name and just click the IMDB link to open a new window with the search, it just give me bad initial results a little too often because it often seems to see the year as part of the name, necessitating those extra clicks.  Obviously not a major issue, just annoyance that TMDB has a solution for so I though IMDB might have some tricks that power users might know.

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I would have suggested putting the year in parentheses, which I thought made a difference in the past, but the results don't seem to be better.

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:-)  Yeah, I tried the parentheses and a few other variations to see if I could guess it (if it existed).  Thanks for trying things!