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Search is way too specific
posted by jeregrineSTAFFMOD on July 21, 2014 at 12:52 PM
Seems like the search only handles exact matching or substring matching.
Ex: "Venture Brothers" returns no results. "Venture Bros" will return results.
We are using the API and this means our users need to search multiple times and make sure they get it perfect if they want to get results...
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 21, 2014 at 8:05 PM
Hi jeregrine,
We use Solr for search so everything has to be accounted for. Our synonym mappings do not currently account for brothers -> bros. I’ve created a ticket for this here. If there’s any others you think should be added let us know.
Reply by jeregrine
on July 21, 2014 at 8:15 PM
Thanks Travis! It was just an example, awesome you are so responsive though.
Reply by Donnie Murdock
on July 21, 2014 at 11:25 PM
why not try http://www.opensearchserver.com/ or elasticsearch http://www.elasticsearch.org/ or Whoosh https://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh/wiki/Home or http://sphinxsearch.com/
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 22, 2014 at 9:03 AM
Elasticsearch and Solr are powered by the same back end (Lucene).
TMDb's search is something we're very proud of. Over the years it has easily become one of our most powerful (and beloved features) and is not something that is likely to get replaced.
If you have a specific issue you would like addressed let us and we'll improve it.