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Google Announces 'Google Movies'

Posted by timothy on from the not-that-this-is-a-time-sink-or-anything dept.

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.'"

6 of 261 comments (clear)

  1. Link NOT SAFE FOR WORK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You have been warned; use your discretion.

  2. Re:Hmm by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: 5, Informative

    - No ads.
    - Google goodness and integration.
    - Better search features and movie location.

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  3. Re:No torrent option yet? by Vicsun · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. For torrent links you need to search for lord of the rings filetype:torrent ;)

  4. Re:Just use booble!!! by puiahappy · · Score: 5, Informative

    or just try www.imdb.com (Internet Movie Data Base), i think no other coment needed

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  5. Similiar to Rotten Tomatoes, but not as good by bjdevil66 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  6. Metacritic? by techstar25 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.