[garbear]

Searching is an important tool for a project like TMDb. Without a good search we end up with duplicates, frustrated users and quite frankly a less than stellar experience. Over the past few years we've had a lot of things change, especially with the amount of non-English content that has been added to our database. We've also grown a lot and our old search infrastructure simply wasn't up for the task.

Starting yesterday, we rolled out a completely brand new, built from scratch search that we feel very proud of. We're not saying it's going to be perfect but it's a foundation we can feel confident growing into.

Along with these improvements behind the scenes, we also added two new options to search with. 'primary_release_year' and 'search_type' are new. You can read about how these work by visiting our search documentation.

http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/#search

As always, if you notice any specific issues make sure to head over to our support area and let us know.

One last thing, we also released more than just a new search, as we have brought the idea behind our 2.1 "Movie.browse" method into v3 but made it considerably better. We've renamed it "discover" and it's pretty awesome. You can read more about it by visiting our API documentation.

http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/#discover

From their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/themoviedb

It looks like they've been working heavily on the search issue as well. With a search engine on their end so heavily optimized in the domain of movies, I'm imagining how much thinking we're going to need to put in to actually contribute anything statistically significant to their results.