IMDb Tom Hanks about zeroclickinfo-spice HOT 7 CLOSED

This isn't using DDG.isRelevant even at this point. I'd say we can start with that and then potentially move to the newer one which provides more than a relevancy check (suggestions with probabilities).

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I'm not sure what the result was like before, but we've now added isRelevant and now it returns a movie result which is a tribute to Tom Hanks, hence it has the name in the title. I feel that's an acceptable result, what do you think @yegg @nilnilnil ?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=IMDb+Tom+Hanks

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I still think this misses the mark. The user is expecting a result about a
person, not a movie. I understand that this is an incremental
improvement. I agree with Gabriel's approach which relies on the entity
stuff that MrShu and I are working on. I am going to swing back around and
take a look at that again.

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On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Zaahir Moolla [email protected]:

I'm not sure what the result was like before, but we've now added
isRelevant and now it returns a movie result which is a tribute to Tom
Hanks, hence it has the name in the title. I feel that's an acceptable
result, what do you think @yegg https://github.com/yegg @nilnilnilhttps://github.com/nilnilnil?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=IMDb+Tom+Hanks

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I agree -- very clear they want info on Tom Hanks the actor.

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Zaahir, is it easy assuming you can get an entity like actor, movie,
producer; to switch contexts in the IMDb API?

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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Gabriel Weinberg
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I agree -- very clear they want info on Tom Hanks the actor.

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@nilnilnil unfortunately no it doesn't help because the api only allows for searching movies. Currently IMDb doesn't have an official API, so only a single 3rd party api exists which seems to be having legal issues so it probably won't be around for much longer. We will need to seek out a better api for movie/actor info. There is the OpenMovieDatabase which also offers a free movie api, but again, it's only for movies. http://www.omdbapi.com/

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We're deprecating the IMDb API since it's using an unofficial API.

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