Comments on The Official Netflix Blog: Search Update

The Netflix search capability is really weak. It's...

2008-08-31T08:50:00.000-07:00

The Netflix search capability is really weak. It's nuts you can't search within genre, or limit, for example, to only movies available to watch instantly.

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2008-08-28T04:34:00.000-07:00

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I would love to filter or sort movies by genres / ...

2008-06-26T16:50:00.000-07:00

I would love to filter or sort movies by genres / release date, usually I have already seen all the movies netflix suggests and I am only interested in resent releases that I have not watched.

the new search is great. i watch a lot of foreign...

2007-10-20T14:36:00.000-07:00

the new search is great. i watch a lot of foreign films and mispelled them half the time.

LOVE the auto-complete on the search! Thanks!

2007-10-19T10:35:00.000-07:00

LOVE the auto-complete on the search! Thanks!

Works great. But agree that unless there's more th...

2007-10-15T04:46:00.000-07:00

Works great. But agree that unless there's more than one movie with that same name the drop-down link should take you straight to the movie page, not to a second search page.

My first complete flunk out (a pretty impressive s...

2007-10-13T06:42:00.000-07:00

My first complete flunk out (a pretty impressive success rate after many dozens of searches). Typing in 'Lola' brings up everything except Fassbinder's 1981 film of that name, for which one needs to write 'The BRD Trilogy : Lola', which only real Fassbinder aficionados will know. Same with 'Veronika Voss' and 'The Marriage of Maria Braun'. Thanks.

Thanks, baff! I never would have found that link, ...

2007-10-07T02:23:00.000-07:00

Thanks, baff! I never would have found that link, way down the page there. The movie is added and I appreciate the assist.

As a work around, you can go to the movie's page a...

2007-10-07T01:01:00.000-07:00

As a work around, you can go to the movie's page and click "Add to Top 10 List" on the left.

The search feature is unaware that there is a movi...

2007-10-07T00:26:00.000-07:00

The search feature is unaware that there is a movie titled American Beauty. I found this out when I was creating custom list and while typing the title into the "add movies" box the search list presented me with The American Beauty, but not the 1999 film starring Kevin Spacey. I can get to American Beauty by typing the full title into the search box on the browse page, but was not able to add it to my custom list, even when I ignored the search selections offered and typed in the correct title myself. It just would not add.

I don't know how many other titles there may be that are identical except for this one pesky little word, but I thought I would mention it as a possible glitch.

Suggestion! ... Please add a search box to the lit...

2007-10-06T09:44:00.000-07:00

Suggestion! ...

Please add a search box to the little pop-up thing that comes up after you add a movie to your queue. It's really annoying when you are trying to search and add a bunch of movies to your queue (which I'm sure people do quite often) to have to hit the little close button on that pop-up every time to get back to the search box.

The new search is horrible. Even though I type in ...

2007-10-05T19:19:00.000-07:00

The new search is horrible. Even though I type in an exact movie title I end up with 2000 or so titles to search through. It even finds totally unrelated stuff, the old engine was much better. Please at least allow the use of quotes around the title, name etc. so it doesn't find every John that has ever been involved in a movie. Add the capability to restrict spelling to exact match.

I have been unable to create any lists at all. I'v...

2007-10-04T13:11:00.000-07:00

I have been unable to create any lists at all. I've tried on FireFox 2.0.0.7 and IE 7. When I type movie names in the box, nothing happens, the plus sign is dead. Please give me some clues on how to do this. Thanks. lbrakeman@cox.net

No, it doesn't. But, if there is only 1 exact mat...

2007-09-30T12:36:00.000-07:00

No, it doesn't. But, if there is only 1 exact match, it could go to the movie page, and if more than 1, to the search page. Thats what IMDB does.

What if there are more than one movie with that ti...

2007-09-30T08:03:00.000-07:00

What if there are more than one movie with that title? Does the search drop down list differentiate between them? Maybe that's why it takes you to a search page.

Thats what I was expecting to happen too the first...

2007-09-29T22:15:00.000-07:00

Thats what I was expecting to happen too the first time I used the new search.

While I'm certainly happy to see some search impro...

2007-09-29T21:08:00.000-07:00

While I'm certainly happy to see some search improvements, would it be too much to ask that clicking on a movie in the auto-complete takes us directly to the movie page? I kinda thought that would be the main reason for doing something like this. If I see the movie I want, why make me go through an extra search results screen to get there?

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2007-09-29T13:37:00.000-07:00

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2007-09-29T00:58:00.000-07:00

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Hey Baff, are you on that d*mn netflix blog again?...

2007-09-29T00:53:00.000-07:00

Hey Baff, are you on that d*mn netflix blog again? We really have to talk.

A little funkiness with searches found:I searched ...

2007-09-28T23:26:00.000-07:00

A little funkiness with searches found:

I searched for "Doctor Who", then I clicked on the Movie Matches which claimed 19610 matches.

On the first page it shows 40 matches
On the second page, 4 matches
Third (final) page, 32 matches

Something wrong with the 2nd page. The number of claimed matches is to be tied to the word 'who', I saw similar results from other common words.

Meghan, nice job on the search. If your group was ...

2007-09-28T16:56:00.000-07:00

Meghan, nice job on the search. If your group was responsible for the Que changes I like the Move to the top on the left side. These changes will be very helpful. Thank you.

There a slight change to the queue today too? Adde...

2007-09-28T16:44:00.000-07:00

There a slight change to the queue today too? Added in MPAA?

That wasn't there before? lol -- I never noticed. But the side scrolly thing on the Community pages looks different to me. Was the text on the tabs always underlined?

New search working well for me too.There a slight ...

2007-09-28T16:26:00.000-07:00

New search working well for me too.

There a slight change to the queue today too? Added in MPAA?

1000% better! Aside from 'Woman in the Dunes', my ...

2007-09-28T16:16:00.000-07:00

1000% better! Aside from 'Woman in the Dunes', my various 'test movies' all showed up on the drop-down list by the 4th letter - e.g. 'LEAV (ing Las vegas)'. Very Cool! Great job guys.