2.7K Messages
•
47K Points
Persistent bug that prevents searching for non-features
When searching for titles, the searches are very good in some places on the IMDb site, while very bad in other places.
Specifically, for at least four years now, there has been a bug that interferes with the ability to search for any titles other than features (e.g., titles like TV episodes, podcast episodes, short films) when editing a user list.
@bderoes and @Pencho15 discussed this bug here four years ago.
The bug looks like this when you try to search for a title when editing a list:
And by the way, the same bug interferes with the ability to find non-features in the quick search results when doing a title search from
any IMDb page:
But when you click "enter" and go to the search results for the title page, it correctly pulls up the desired titles (note that these titles are all shorts and episode titles):
In the thread linked to above from four years ago,
@bderoes said this was a "known bug."
Did IMDb staff ever announce any position on whether bug will be fixed?
Accepted Solution
Peter_pbn
Champion
•
15.7K Messages
•
344.2K Points
4 years ago
This is actually acknowledged in the last point of
And this one says the search suggestions in the site search is not intended to include all titles:
1
Col_Needham
Employee
•
8.2K Messages
•
190.5K Points
4 years ago
Thanks @Peter_pbn — as noted @keyword_expert, this is not a bug as such, but a deliberate design choice given the number of collisions between titles of shorts and features. However, the list search is built upon 12+ year old technology which will eventually be replaced. It is likely that the replacement will be able to display more context for each matching title beyond the title itself; at which point supporting shorts would be both easier and less confusing.
Hope this helps.
0