On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Gustavo Duarte <gus.dua...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My doubt is, when I make a movie search by title in a another different > language than English, why the search is more precise if use HTTP access > than SQL ?
They just have a different set of information. The plain text data files (used by SQL) is somehow limited; on the IMDb many more information came from third-party companies and are licensed in a way that prevents them to be included in the plain text data files. In your case, if you open the aka-titles.list file, you will see that "El gran robo" is not associated to Flypaper at all (it's, instead, correctly associated to 7 uomini e un cervello, but that's obviously another movie). So, it has no way to know that your El gran robo is in fact Flypaper. Plus, even having all the data, I do a limited kind of search on titles and AKAs: they are first matched (with/without articles like The, A, An, ...) to the entries in the database using a soundex algorithm (to match things that "sounds similar"), then the matching subset is compared and sorted using a distance algorithm. It works quite well, in fact, but on the IMDb site they can use much more sophysticated algorithms and also meta-information like how many people are looking for a given title, how much popular a movie is and so on. So, in your specific case: no way. In general: it's not that bad, but I'm obviously open to receive patches that improve the search. :-) -- Davide Alberani <davide.alber...@gmail.com> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://www.mimante.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-help mailing list Imdbpy-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-help
