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Google Announces 'Google Movies'
NW writes "Over at the official Google Blog, a new Google feature was announced - Google Movies. When using the 'movie:' operator in Google, it brings up movie reviews. At the first glance it looks like a custom search across movie review sites. There are also movie 'home pages' like this one which aggregate all reviews AND calculate the total score based on the number of stars. It looks like something similar to Google News - parsing all the reviews and it remains to be seen whether it will be expanded to something like IMDB. There is also no ads, probably for the same reason as Google News. The bottom of the page states 'The selection and placement of reviews on this page were determined automatically by a computer program. No movie critics were harmed or even used in the making of this page.'"
This is exactly what http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ does. I'm not sure if its an automated process on their end or not but it is functionally identical and in an easier to access format for current movies.
A very worthwhile site.
You have been warned; use your discretion.
- No ads.
- Google goodness and integration.
- Better search features and movie location.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
No. For torrent links you need to search for lord of the rings filetype:torrent ;)
or just try www.imdb.com (Internet Movie Data Base), i think no other coment needed
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q= movie%3Achristmas+lights/
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Google already offers product reviews through Froogle BETA. Just search for any old MP3 player and you can find reviews of both the products listed and the companies that sell them.
This information is collected and presented by Google, setting them up as a potential competitor to sites like Epinions.
For more information, click here.
If and when I want reviews on a movie, this is the best review aggregator site I have found so far:
MRQE
I can see them working, but it's not the best system. Rotten Tomatoes is still far superior for movie review comparisons, IMO.
Final note: don't try "Movie:" (proper use is no caps). This is case-sensitive.
I did a search for Manos. I didn't get what I was looking for. Maybe the crawlers need to run a little longer.
Zagreus sits inside your head, Zagreus lives among the dead, Zagreus sees you in your bed and eats you in your sleep.
If you search for "movie:sideways" Google assumes you want to know about showtimes in your area, and asks for your location.
If you search for "movie:sideways review", however, Google gives you links to the reviews.
I'll stick with metacritic.com to get my film reviews. While I'm there I can also get videogame, dvd, and cd reviews. Plus, they give a rating from 0-100 which is much more useful than the 1-5 Google is using.
Because if you search for a currently playing movie it (correctly or incorrectly) assumes that you are more interested in showtimes than reviews. You can correct its behavior by adding "review" to the end of the movie search.