Thank you for your kind words about the new search features, and we're glad to know this post helps you!
I wanted to address your second point regarding Marvel Avengers Movies Universe. We're not actually re-tagging the works - we do not do that, as per the ToS. Instead, we have the five movie tags (and one short clip - I love fandom!) set up as subtags of the MAMU metatag. This means that if you search for the movie, you just get the movie, but if you search for the metatag, you'll get all of the movies. You can read more on tags and metatags in the FAQ.
Previously, the Advanced Works Search wasn't canny enough to see if the search term you entered had subtags - one of the goals of the new search engine to get that working. The same thing is happening for the Crossover hierarchy! And if you're ever curious about a tag's associations, you can select the tag name on the search page where it lists "1 of X works in Tag_Name" and it will show you the wrangled links for that tag!
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samjohnsson Thu 08 Nov 2012 05:38PM UTC
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