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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.'"

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  1. Hmm by P-Frank · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What makes this different from Rotten Tomatoes? And I am genuinely asking this question, not being a horrible sarcastic person.

  2. Problem by nearlygod · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem that I foresee with this is timeliness. If you search for Sideways you don't get any results! I'll stick with Rotten Tomatoes.

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  3. Re:quit it already by HyperChicken · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're search quality IS slipping. I have to dig further into the results to find something useful. And for general queries, for get about it! General queries results are filled with spammer results on the first couple of pages.

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  4. integration by harshaw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's been interesting over the last couple of months to see the new google services and how well they integrate with each other.

    for instance, I use google local and at some point it squirreled away a cookie of my location. This information is used by google maps and also the movie reviews.

    when I type movie: Hotel Rwanda it brings me to a listing of show times and links in my town. Another click on "7:40" brings me to the another site (movietickets.com, fandago.com, etc) where I can order a ticket. The point is: two clicks to getting movie tickets. Why would I go to any other site at this point? it's so easy with google, especially when I type it into the built in toolbar on my browser.

    At this point it seems like any horizontal web app is a possible target for google.