Can someone tell me WHY is the search so, sorry, shitty? I was annoyed before, but now I’m properly mad. I’ve input THE EXACT NAME of the movie (documentary) and it’s NOWHERE in the first 5 pages. I’ve only been able to find it by looking up the presenter. This is ridiculous!
None of those should matter, Terry. This search engine is deeply broken, when it’s showing you results in order of, apparently, popularity, and not relevance to your query.
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What are some example queries?
(I was sure I replied, but actually only dreamt about it and didn’t do it irl. Oops. So embarrassing 
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(examples based on page 1 of results)
Example 1:
Doesn’t show up in search results unless I include punctuation in the query.
Example 2:
Doesn’t show up at all, even if I include either apostrophes or quatation marks.
Example 3:
Doesn’t show up when I input “drain the oceans” even though the query is more than a half of the title.
Example 4:
Doesn’t show up when I input “hidden heroes”. The first page includes titles like “Maya The Bee”, “Man on High Heels” and “Dreamworks Holiday Classics”. Make it make sense 
Example 5:
Doesn’t show up when I input “pergamon”. The first page includes titles like “Blind Date”, “The Fresh Lobster” (1928) and “Stealing Candy”
Example 6:
Doesn’t show up when I input “le systeme total”. The first page includes “Justice League” and “I Am Legend”
Example 7:
Doesn’t show up, even when I include punctuation.
Should I go on? I’ve had plenty more issues.
Inb4: I have no such issues when searching on Letterboxd or TV Time.
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It seems like the common theme is items with punctuation in the title. I am actually working on some search updates and hope to have a VIP beta in the coming weeks using this new search engine.
I totally get your frustration. The search function often feels way off, even with exact titles.
It’s super annoying when you have to dig through pages or find workarounds.
A platform like this should have much better search accuracy.
I’ve had the same issue with some shows and documentaries too.
Hopefully they’re working on improving it soon.
It really hurts the overall user experience.
i stopped testing after the first four, but the only one that showed up for me was The Truth about the ‘Skinny’ Jab. I did the search without any punctuation and it was the first one in the list.
That is annoying for sure, I personally haven’t run into anything as bad so far.
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VIPs can opt in to a new “experimental” search engine in the settings. Please let me know if the accuracy is better with this new engine.
I wanted to praise the search engine… up until 15 minutes ago
Everything was great actually for the past couple of months, but suddenly went to 
within the last 2 hours
I searched for a documentary series "the buddha code” abt 2 hours ago, couldn’t find it but I just mostly glanced at results, but there were less than 20 of them; repeated the search just now, and suddenly there’s 11k+ results, the first 7 including Buddy Complex, Good Behavior, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and The New Adventures Of Superman, make it make sense (again)
This was an unintentional bug and has already been fixed.
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yay! thanks for the quick fix 
I again have problem with searching lol
This time with searching people
Andreas Sulzer - Trakt name not searchable, query shows 676 results (the only common thing is first name)
Anna Maria van 't Hek - Trakt query shows 66 results (the only common thing are first 2 names)
Duncan Napier-Bell - Trakt query shows 460 results
Olivier Lemaître - Trakt query shows only 1 result which is a different person with a different (but similar) last name
Connie Edwards - Trakt query shows only 1 result which is a different person with same last name and similar first name
Yaron Niski - Trakt 29 results, none of them is this person
Hjalmar Tim Ilmer - Trakt 27 results, none of them is this person
Job Tichelman - Trakt 23 results, none of them is this person
It wouldn’t bother me normally, but I watch quite some obscure documentaries on Planete and Nat Geo, and sometimes I have no idea of original title, or by which title it’s here in the database (original, translated to English, or even else entirely) and searching by director or writer is the last option I have to look for it here 
still having this problem~