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Google Adds Movie Ratings, Times, Reviews
Mike Skweir writes " I was going to take my daughter to the movies this afternoon and I
wanted to find out more about the movie 'Kicking & Screaming'... so I Googled
it. To my surprise the following
response occurred . When I followed the
link, it actually gave me several reviews, movie ratings and the ability to
search for a theatre in my area." Once you've entered your zip code, it will also tell you what movies are playing in your area.
This sounds familiar.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Try this search, or to put it into the search box: "movie:movie". Enter your zip code for a full listing of locally showing movies.
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This feature exists. It is implemented in the google toolbar (look for two smileys). At least I remember it in Version 1.something.
Even if you dont remember the movie name, you can try searching for plot/key phrases!!
e.g. searching for Future world (or google "movies: future world") comes up with a decent list, with "Twelve Monkeys" on 1st and "Minority Report" as second!
and it works very similarly...here's the result for the same movie: http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=FP-pull-web-t&p= kicking+screaming
I know Google SMS has the ability to retrieve movie showtimes for the current day in your area, though I haven't yet found a way to get future movie times (say, what opens tomorrow) through Google SMS (read: I've been too lazy to go read the help and find out).
I'm rather surprised that it sounds like Google SMS got something before the mainstream Google web did.
Still, very cool. I *heart* Google.
Typing "Kicking and Screaming" indeed brings out the movie review link, but typing another movie (e.g. 'Closer') does not, unless you include the "movie:" operator (that is, search for "movie:Closer").
I wonder why this is so but, oh well, Google is all-wise!
Uh, the Google movie/local search has been working for months! Slashdot link from Feb 23rd here In fact, the IMDB link has been there from the start. It amazes me when some parent finds out about Google's "new" 3 month old feature, they think it's new, and news worthy to boot. Whoopty do, next headline: "New feature, Google aggregates data!!" No kidding? As usual, good ol' /. dupe checking works it's magic! :)
Not to dis Google or anything, but since when is every minuscule innovation on web based portals revolutionary? Endless "betas" and rapid cash burns to develop the next biggest thing is what turned the dot-com boom into a bust. Is Google next? Nah, there's no competition in the search engine market. Hehe.
Sure, people love Google, I love Google, but this stuff is something Yahoo has been doing for 10 years and people are atingle over it like its new technology!? Innovation only leads to more complex interfaces, and the simplicity of Google's very nature will only become bulkier and bloated the more of this "crap" they add. What, links to outside review services just weren't enough? Creature Feep if you ask me.
there are lots of targeted searches you can do on google via keywords, including focusing on scholarly/research papers and articles.
The complete list of keywords and their syntax is here.
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google maps has directions, and satellite views, and local search results..
Get yourself the adblock extension for firefox and bid those annoying banners a final farewell
Yeah, Altavista was my prefered search engine for years. Now most of the tyme I start with Google but occasionally I'll go with About, especially when it comes to archeology and anthropology or photography as About has really good sections on these. When Google doesn't do it for me I'll then go to Dmoz, Teoma, or Mooter.
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