It's one of those things that you'd expect all large sites to have, but for some reason or another, Hulu has always had a bit of a gimpy search engine. You kind of typed stuff in... and prayed the site knew what you were looking for. But that's just changed! Just in time too, with the deluge of festive programming that's about to hit their website. Yes, Hulu now has an Advanced Search: rejoice and be merry!

I guess an advanced search was never really on the priority list, back when their archive of shows was pretty small. But now with their digital rights expanding every day and the list of available shows becoming impressively large, and streaming media fast becoming the Internet's primary purpose, Hulu's new search tool couldn't come at a better time.

Apparently they also have some other neat features lined up for the festive season; we'll be sure to report on anything else that looks interesting! They've dubbed their festival of features 'Hulu for the Holidays'. Just don't try saying that out loud like I did.

[via CNET -- I would link you to the actual advanced search tool, but the Hulu site uses some lame Javascript stuff that prevents me...]