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Google Search Will Soon Include Live TV Listings (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google announced users will soon see live TV listings within their search results. Fortune writes, "Pretty soon, you will be able to Google the name of a television show or movie and see live air times for that content within the search results." The announcement was made at the National Association of Broadcasters conference. "What we're seeing is that more and more, viewers are turning to their phones to find out what to watch, where to watch it and when it's available -- in fact, searches for TV shows and films on mobile have grown more than 55% in the past year alone," Google said in a blog post announcing the new feature. Google Search users will have the option of clicking an "edit provider" link that will allow them to enter their specific cable provider when they search for the name of a TV show or movie. There's no specific date for when the feature will be launching, just that it will be launching "soon."
I don't like dead ones!
That every time they add a new 'feature', it is strictly for the purpose of acquiring still more data about you. You don't get a penny for this, it makes them wealthy.
Just discovered Google. As Google is being Google, they chase after a dying market. Hulu needs no TV listing.
TV Listing are a dying market. Cut the cable.
Fuck yo television, nigga.
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I use DuckDuckGo, so I won't see this info I don't want to see. If I wanted schedule, I'd Goog^H^H^H^H^H^H^ search for it.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
15 years ago this might have been useful, but today between DVRs and on-demand libraries and streaming, not so much today. IMDb's program and movie pages are more useful, you at least get some streaming results, too.
The only time we watch live TV, it's either the news (that we know when and where to watch) or we don't really care what is on we're just watching a particular channel because we know what types of programs it airs. Everything else is prerecorded or on-demand, with on-demand really our go-to now -- so fuck you, CW removing your channel from it years ago; we haven't watched a single program of yours since, on any platform.
Google pays small software companies to hire cheap labor to help develop API's, paying low wages to high level developers like me, who is experienced with research and development. When I noticed that, I FARTED in the face of a manager to convince them that I'm not up to help USA in World War III, by destroying privacy of Brazilian scientists. They even gave me a free smartphone once.
The next step is to brush every line of code of Wordpress, that shit has something.
I check them about twice a month, and every single damn time they're wrong.
Lee Wagner is crying in his grave...
Soon, we will never have to leave Google's "intranet" for anything. IMDB, Wipedia, travel, shopping, weather, calculators, dictionnaries, news, now TV program listings...pages providing a particular service get indexed one by one, context integrated, and then obliterated by Google. The new form of embrace, extend and extinguish, apparently.
This is not a new, but a very worrying approach Google is taking here. Monopolies have never been good for the consumers.
If I'm not actually looking for a TV listing (and there are perfectly good sites dedicated to that which I already have bookmarked), then showing TV listing in the search results means the search algorithm is broken.
Stop trying to (unsuccessfully) guess what I want and show me the results I'm telling you I want. By now we've all used Google and we know how it works.
Unless I'm looking for TV listings if Google returns TV listings it means the search algorithm is broken. There are websites which catalogue them just fine, and I have them bookmarked. It's not as though TV listings are hard to find or require clever algorithms.
Stop trying to guess what I want - we've all used by Google by now, if I want TV listings I will look for them. I'm not a child so don't assume what I ask for in the search somehow isn't what I'm really looking for.
Could Google export results for loading with xmltv?
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
A bit off topic, but where should I go to complain about Slashdot's degrading site? Sometime within the past two weeks displaying your post after you post has stopped working. Instead of your post showing up, you get an infinite "Working..." progress circle.
The number of blocked trackers and ads seem to be increasing too. uBlock and Ghostery say 24 things have been blocked on this page.
A technological advance? Eh, no. Check out my new product.
Google's search results are getting worse and worse all the time. I have to work harder and harder to exclude all the crap that Google deludes itself into thinking is relevant, including their simply awful ideas on suitable synonyms for various search terms. Now, along with all that crap, if I search for 'Malcolm X', I'll probably get to wade through TV listings for 'Malcolm in the Middle' reruns. Out-fucking-standing, Googletards!
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
I regulate my life around live TV so this is so very, very wonderful for me!
It was intended as the place where the smarter, connected, educated scholars and professors in academia would meet, collaborate, discuss, and argue or propose ideas like pepperoni or anchovy pizza to go with their selected TV programme for tonight's brainstorm
The Fall of Western Civilization is at hand. The circle is now complete.
TV listings? What year is it? Does anybody still watch live TV any more?
Google Search Will Soon Include Live TV Listings
Uh, okay, I guess that's news...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
There have been more than a few times that this would have been handy for me. Much much better than what I had to do before, which was going to different network and station websites to find their schedules.
I haven't in years. Everything is streaming now.
Between TiVo and now Netflix and Hulu, I haven't watched live TV on a regular basis since around the time Google was founded.
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