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Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 7:04 PM

Redesigned Filmosearch

Redesigned Filmosearch

 

We’re excited to announce that we’ve redesigned IMDb’s Filmosearch experience to be powered by Advanced Title Search. In the coming days, IMDb will incrementally roll out this refresh. The redesign streamlines the flow of your search and makes it easy to see relevant details about someone’s filmography while allowing you to keep adjusting your results with our powerful Advanced Title Search interface if you want.

 

To try it out: start on a Name Page, open “All topics“ in the top right of the screen, and then select one of the options under the ”Credits” section to go to our new Filmosearch (within Advanced Title Search) experience. For example, see below for the experience if you select “by Rating” from the “Credits” section on Hong Chau's page. Happy searching!

 

- The IMDb Team

 

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LutherJoy

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5 months ago

Uh-oh, here we go again. 

Assumed the old solution would be all-solving. But - sure enough today, I'm using the Creator Page > Credits approach, and filtering to exclude non-directed projects. 

So I've got Andrei Tarkovsky. I've got his Features. Features Tarkovsky directed. 

Time to sort by user_rating now.

Oh look - everything else he didn't direct, just popped back in. 

Now it's one big list of everything even vaguely, tangentially Tarkovsky. 

So, how do I;

Sort - Andrei Tarkovsky + Feature Films + Directed By +  By user_rating? - with exclusivity of director and project type? 

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LutherJoy

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5 months ago

Reply above doesn't address the issue raised - 

Filter by job_type

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Sort by user_rating 

(sorting by user_rating undoes the initial job_type filter) 

Keyterm here - user_rating. 

Key phrase - exclusively directed by. 

Thanks 

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Col_Needham

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@LutherJoy​ Here's the text of the earlier reply in case your browser is not linking you to the correct point in the thread:

A quick update on this …  the team are aware of the issue and a solution is blocked by another pending change, but we will be able to address this once the other change has been made.  

If it helps at all, you can still produce this combination of filters and sorts via the IMDb mobile apps. 

Sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime.  

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LutherJoy

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@Col_Needham , context suggested the linking was incorrect because the target post - referencing changes pending that pended the changes I'd inquired about - was a month old. It couldn't have been relevant.

Here we are 30 days later. I suppose that link was at least twice as correct. 

But in the end, you are the hero that created the most useful film website in history. 

Either you're happy with the downward direction it's taking. 

Or incurably un-so. 

For most longterm users, the latter's true.

But in your case, you've got exponentially more ability toward a cure.

Thanks. 

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Col_Needham

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@LutherJoy​ The change is still in development, sorry.  As mentioned, it was blocked behind another change / launch which took priority.  We are still awaiting an update from the IMDb team which is developing this software as it has new complexity both from the user interface and the back-end search technology perspectives.  We have over 200 million credits for more than 13 million names and the database is still growing rapidly so the technology has to cope with thousands of updates per hour 24 hours per day and seven days per week. 

In the meantime as noted, you can filter by profession and title type via the filter menu directly on the name page which was not possible before without navigating away from the name page.  It is only the sorting which is missing.  The IMDb mobile apps also fully support this already too. 

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A quick update from the team: implementation is now underway and since this is a complicated change, we expect it to be live for limited customer testing by the end of next month if all goes smoothly.  Thank you for your patience in the meantime.

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cgaliher

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2 months ago

Using the desktop version of IMDb, in the class view, I am trying to filter an individual's credits by job type and list them in order by number of votes.  I have been able to do this in the past but now I cannot sort by number of votes and retain the filter for job type.  In the example below, the "by Votes" results page shows all 16 of his credited films without any way to filter out his producer and/or camera and electrical department credits, or even just to tell on which eight he is credited as a cinematographer.  This feature was available before, and still is on the mobile app (I hope it will be, since for now I have to use that).  Please restore this feature! 

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?role=nm0270618&sort=num_votes,desc

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Filter by Votes and Job Type
Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Filter by Votes and Job Type

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winstonsmith

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2 months ago

Hi

Can't seem to find a way to sort by IMDB Rating, as it was a while ago? is this feature now missing? is there a way to bring it back?

Also, when viewing a director's works by topic, I can't seem to choose the job type 'director'. is there a way to bring back this feature?

Overall, seems like many helpful features are missing since the latest redesign, not sure if this is done on purpose or not.

Thank You

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled IMDB Rating MIA

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winstonsmith

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@Col_Needham​ Thank You for the quick reply, good luck with this :)

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Hi everyone, We wanted to provide a quick update on the redesigned Filmosearch experience. During internal testing this week, we found a few bugs that need to be resolved before we can release the update. We will update this thread when we have those fixes. Thanks again for your patience.

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winstonsmith

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24 days ago

Thank You for updating the functionality of the site, in my experience everything works well and the missing features are restored. 

I have a suggestion: changing the name 'Credit Category' to something else, maybe just 'Credit', would be nicer to have it shorter, more concise. The word 'Category' feels redundant.  

All the Best :)

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SAR

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Thanks for the feedback. We use "Credit Category" to indicate that the filter could group together credits such as Costume Supervisor and Set Costumer under a category of Costume Department. It's helpful to know where our terminology may not be resonating with customers, and I have passed on the feedback to the team for consideration.

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MalcolmRolden

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After months of waiting, I am so glad you finally added the "Credit Category" feature to Advanced search. It works great! Thank y'all so much for finally coming through with it.

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