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posted by Michell BakSTAFFMOD on March 8, 2013 at 5:30 PM
Hi Travis!
If you search for "I Robot" or "I, Robot", the correct movie will be presented as the second result, and "Robot and Frank" as the first result. Surely, this must be a bug?
http://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=I%2C+robot#0
Thanks!
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 9, 2013 at 1:43 AM
There isn't much that can be done about this at the moment. Since we use ngram the single character 'I' is basically being thrown away.
Later this year I'll be overhauling the search and this will fix some issues like this. I don't however, have plans on starting that until probably summer sometime.
Reply by Michell Bak
on March 9, 2013 at 1:53 AM
Fair enough, I had a feeling that the "I" was being ignored more or less :-)