BBC Search: iPlayer and /programmes included
Hello.
Take a look at the latest version of the BBC's search service.
For the first time, relevant BBC TV and radio programmes are included in your search results alongside news articles, other BBC web pages and links to external websites.
About a third of the most popular searches on the BBC seach engine are for programmes. While selected programme websites have always been available in search, you will now find two new types of results:
• programmes that you can watch or listen to in BBC iPlayer
• and episode pages for all programmes broadcast on radio or television in the last eighteen months (since we began /programmes our new approach to publishing programme information).
Most of these episode pages will not let you watch or listen to programmes, but you can read about that episode's storyline and cast, and in the future these pages will contain richer information including clips, like this.
The search results pages have also taken on the new BBC style and we are experimenting with new ways of displaying the results. I think it looks great - let us know your thoughts.
I am going to post about this in more depth in a couple of weeks - once we have some performance figures and feedback.
This is the first of a series of planned improvements to search in the next few months, so any observations from you are very welcome indeed.
And for anyone who wants a more in-depth view of how BBC site search works, one of our senior software engineers, Andy Webb, will be posting in a couple of days.
Matthew McDonnell works in Search & Navigation, Online Media Group, BBC Future Media & Technology.
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Well this is excellent. Well done.
Are there plans to add a search to RSS feature so that programmes matching a particular term turn up in subscribable feed in case there's anything we've missed?
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It still would be nice when you do a search from news.bbc.co.uk to get the "News" tab by default.
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Why does:
http://tinyurl.com/3w7jnh
Return no results, but
http://tinyurl.com/45drso
Returns lots of results...
Surely the same set of results should be returned whether it's sorted by date or relevance?
Still, it's certainly an improvement...
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searching for steve jones certainly brings up 'today' 7th Oct but ... it's a 3 hour programme - it would be great if I knew how far to fast forward
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further to #4
of course when I then go to the 'today' web page for tues 7th the seperate audio pieces are listed
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It looks great - congratulations to you and the team. David
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