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Subject:
Searching for a movie title
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Movies and Film Asked by: somethingelse-ga List Price: $10.00 |
Posted:
22 Feb 2005 04:38 PST
Expires: 24 Mar 2005 04:38 PST Question ID: 478647 |
I'm looking for a search engine that can help me find a movie title. I tried IMDB but the search criteria has to be by the initials of the actors. Ideally, it should allow me to include multiple sets of actor initials (not names). (e.g. H.F. and K.A. would include Raiders of the Lost Ark in the result set.) IMDB includes a regular expression search for titles (which doesn't seem to work very well), but doesn't seem to have what I'm looking for. Thanks in advance for your help. |
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Re: Searching for a movie title
From: bookbag-ga on 22 Feb 2005 06:42 PST |
Try Netflix and see what happens in a search. You never know. |
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Re: Searching for a movie title
From: respree-ga on 24 Feb 2005 13:16 PST |
Not to be discouraging, but I think its unlikely you'll find what you are looking for. Think about how a search engine operates. It's goal is to return 'relevant' results to the searcher. So typing in J.S. could mean: John Smith Joan Smith Jack Smith Jackie Smith Jeff Smith Here, I am not varying the last name, but can you imagine how many combination of names can be created with the initials J.S.? There is no possible way for for any computer algorithm to figure out from J.S. that you actually meant or are looking for "Joan Smith." Unfortunately, programs can only do what you say, not what you mean -- at least for now. =) |
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Re: Searching for a movie title
From: somethingelse-ga on 24 Feb 2005 18:03 PST |
To clarify, I'm looking for a search engine within a site that specializes in movies, similar to imdb. Where I could search for all movies that costarred actors or actresses with specific initials. |
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