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.
So far experimental seems better. Just doing some high level testing back and forth.