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."

Comments

Killing off one internet service at a time.

[Barnoid]

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.

Re:Killing off one internet service at a time.

[sydbarrett74]

IMDB is owned by Amazon, not Google. (Citation.)

Opposite of searching

[Livius]

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.

Just one Idea

[the_other_one]

Could Google export results for loading with xmltv?

Re:Better than dead ones!

[quenda]

The summary should briefly explain what "Live TV" means, for the benefit of younger slashdot readers.

Its one of those things like fax machines, that should not exist any more, but some people still use it from habit.

Do people even watch live TV?

[Tighe_L]

I haven't in years. Everything is streaming now.