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dragonfire88 Posted: Oct 11 '08,  2:15 pm           
Reviews written: 990
Member since: Jul 20 '01
Post: 205402
The Simpsons - Season 11

I can't find The Simpsons - Season 11 on Epinions. The DVD set was released on Tuesday - October 7, 2008.

I went to the main movie page and clicked on television under videos & DVD and did my search from that page.

http://www.epinions.com/Movies--media_television

There are three results, none of which are the correct item.
http://tinyurl.com/44qxhz

Here is the listing at Amazon.com for the DVD set.
http://tinyurl.com/4yyx9m

I went to shopping.com and also searched there. I went to media and then television to do my search.
http://www0.shopping.com/xPP-movies--media_television

Here are the results, which show what I was looking for as the first result.
http://www0.shopping.com/xPP-movies--media_television

   
jurgrace Posted: Oct 11 '08,  3:40 pm           
Reviews written: 207
Member since: Nov 26 '07
Post: 205408
RE: The Simpsons - Season 11

Did you try google with "site:epinions.com"?

   
dragonfire88 Posted: Oct 11 '08,  5:16 pm (Updated: Oct 11 '08,  5:19 pm)           
Reviews written: 990
Member since: Jul 20 '01
Post: 205414
RE: The Simpsons - Season 11

Quote: jurgrace
Did you try google with "site:epinions.com"?


No I didn't. I usually don't think to try that.

Ok...I just went and tried that. I got pages and pages of results. With the Simpsons, I found all sorts of listings for earlier seasons and reviews. I went through 3 or 4 pages and didn't find the main listing for the 11th season. I found nothing for The Big Bang Theory that was for the tv show on Epinions. There were listings for reviews of other things connected to big bang, but not the television show.
   
jurgrace Posted: Oct 11 '08,  9:16 pm           
Reviews written: 207
Member since: Nov 26 '07
Post: 205435
RE: The Simpsons - Season 11

Quote: dragonfire88
No I didn't. I usually don't think to try that.

Ok...I just went and tried that. I got pages and pages of results. With the Simpsons, I found all sorts of listings for earlier seasons and reviews. I went through 3 or 4 pages and didn't find the main listing for the 11th season. I found nothing for The Big Bang Theory that was for the tv show on Epinions. There were listings for reviews of other things connected to big bang, but not the television show.


Oh. In that case, my guess is that SAP is your friend.

Good luck.
   
dragonfire88 Posted: Oct 12 '08,  2:06 pm           
Reviews written: 990
Member since: Jul 20 '01
Post: 205494
RE: The Simpsons - Season 11

The SAP isn't working in movies right now.
I was posting about this here in case it is a search issue and the items are hidden away somewhere in the database.

   
dragonfire88 Posted: Oct 12 '08,  2:14 pm           
Reviews written: 990
Member since: Jul 20 '01
Post: 205497
Phantoms

I was just looking for the movie Phantoms.

I started on the movie main page and then clicked on video & DVD to do my search.
http://www.epinions.com/Movies

I got 8 pages of results.
http://www.epinions.com/Movies/search_string_~Phantoms/adv_search_~1

The movie I was looking for was buried back on page 6 of the results.
http://www.epinions.com/Movies/sec_~product_list/adv_search_~1/pp_~6?search_string=Phantoms#list

Here is the listing for the movie.
http://www.epinions.com/reviews/mvie_mu-1080858

When I tried looking on Shopping.com, the results were even worse. 50 pages of results, most of which weren't movies even though I went to the movie page before doing my search. I gave up after going through 6 pages of results.
http://www.shopping.com/xCC-Phantoms~FD-0~LO-1

   
dragonfire88 Posted: Oct 27 '08,  1:09 pm           
Reviews written: 990
Member since: Jul 20 '01
Post: 207120
Scream

I just tried to look up Scream, the horror movie from 1996. I have read reviews on this movie in the past, so I knew it was in the database somewhere.

I started on the main movie page and then clicked on Videos & DVDs. I did my search from that page.
http://www.epinions.com/Movies

I typed in Scream and got 6 pages of results.
http://www.epinions.com/Movies/search_string_~Scream/adv_search_~1

The movie I was looking for was buried back on page 4 as the last listing on the page.
http://www.epinions.com/Movies/sec_~product_list/adv_search_~1/pp_~4?search_string=Scream#list

   
sleeper54 Posted: Nov 20 '08,  8:51 pm (Updated: Nov 20 '08,  9:00 pm)           
Reviews written: 436
Member since: Feb 24 '01
Post: 209952
Search problem...

...
1.Where did you start you search? Homepage, category, etc (provide the url)

Books tab:
http://www.epinions.com/books


2. What were your search terms? (provide exact string(s), "Humphrey Bogart" or "Humphrey Bogart Movies")

founding brothers

3. What did you expect to see? (provide url of results)

Founding Brothers by J. Ellis / R. Nelson see here

URL: http://www.epinions.com/reviews **remove this space /Founding_Brothers__The_Revolutionary_Generation_by_Joseph_J_Ellis_Books

4. What position was the first relevant result and what position was the first irrelevant result?

First four were actually close.

The real problem was at the second page of results. see here.

Which suddenly featured sander/grinders, watches, marinara sauce, a book, and wine.


5. Did you try this search on Shopping.com? What was the result there?

No.

6. Did you find what you were looking for via other means? If so please share?

Found it OK, but other results were whacked...



...tom...
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