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Thread Title:
Google movies: now playing
Thread Url:
http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/02/google-movies-now-playing.html
Thread Description:
Nice - Pop movie: before a famous line from a film, an actors name or pretty much anything movie related and Google will try to fetch you something relevant - and it didn't do a bad job at all with the few quick searches i tried.
Clicking the reviews links will send you via Froogle to various vendors.

Just in time for the Oscars, we've created a new "movie:" operator that enables you to find movie-related information faster and more easily, whether you're looking for titles or actors, director or genre, famous lines or obscure plot details. Can't remember the name of that film where Tom Hanks made friends with a volleyball? Search for [movie: Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball] and Google will tell you: it was Cast Away. Want rental recommendations? Try searching for [movie: awesome car chase] or [movie: good chick flick].

The Threadwatch small plastic trumpet award™ to the stupidest (non adult) use of the Movie: operator heh...

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Not sure what you're looking for

But how's this?

By pleeker at Feb 24 2005 - 00:08

hmmm...

i wonder how accurate their counts of positive/neutral/negative are? ie - All reviews (77), Positive reviews (45), Neutral reviews (12), Negative reviews (7) - are they using an algo?

By kpaul at Feb 24 2005 - 00:43

also

was there an announcement i missed somewhere? ;)

By kpaul at Feb 24 2005 - 00:50

heh. i'm not sure what you're

looking for either, but how about: movie: apple microsoft i was surprised at some of the results...

By kpaul at Feb 24 2005 - 00:52

It's not much help

if you just want to know about any old movie.

By qwerty at Feb 24 2005 - 04:16

Very impressed but some new m

Very impressed but some new movies seem to be missing like "hide and seek" which I first tried because I'm supposed to seeing it tonight. But other than that it's my new favourite for reviews :)

By xcandyman at Feb 24 2005 - 09:30

movie tickets too?

I thought this was an interesting article from the Seattle Times

Quote:
Google and Amazon.com's Internet Movie Database separately said they would start selling movie tickets through their respective Web sites. That would accelerate the trend of transforming familiar Web sites into full-featured online services that allow people to search the Internet, buy stuff, plot a trip or plan a night out.

Of course IMDb (an Amazon company) is where you get a link to if you do the other type of search promoted in Googles Movies blog entry movie: Mountain View, CA

Quote:
Google said it wouldn't get a commission from movie-ticket sales. Instead, the company expects to generate more searches for movie-related terms, which it hopes will in turn encourage companies to buy more movie-related ads.

As for Amazon, neither its Internet Movie Database unit nor Fandango would say whether the company would get a cut of the ticket sales.
But the partnership means Amazon will reach customers during more of a film's life; the online retailer will sell people tickets to see a movie in theaters, then months later will sell them the DVD.

Is this making you think of anything else at all?

I cant find the 'buy tickets' link anywhere at the moment, so perhaps the news report is wrong - and if/when that link does appear there's no reason G shouldn't do it. It does seem an interesting insight into Googles future plans though.

By Gurtie at Feb 24 2005 - 13:42