Cool Google Movie Hacks
Google.com is full of amazing tricks (like their built-in calculator or Google Maps) and now they've added a cool set of movie hacks.
To use the Google "Movie" feature, type:
Movie: 06811 (06811 is my zip code)
This is the resulting page, with local theater showtimes, reviews, and even a link to the movie on Amazon's Internet Movie Database.
If you click on the reviews or stars it will bring you to a review page:
I've just started playing with it, but you can also type in "Movie: Lost in Translation" to see the reviews of the movie.
From Search Engine Watch via Scripting.com
They don't appear to be getting their critic feeds from Rotten Tomatoes (as Netflix does). I would guess that they are relying on heuristic searching because I saw random user reviews that snuck in suggesting a crawl.
The "frequently mentioned terms" is an interesting idea.
For those of you wanting a rocking movie search engine:
http://www.imdb.com/list
Posted by: Aron | February 25, 2005 at 01:57 AM
how goolge get the rating? I cannot fine where to give a rating.. Do they aggregate all the rating form different site? but each site has different rating caculation, ex. 10 stars...
Posted by: ijac | May 20, 2005 at 05:43 AM
The best thing out there is the Movie Review Finder Bookmarklet at:
http://badsegue.org/archives/2005/04/27/movie-review-finder-bookmarklet
Highlight the title of a movie on a Netflix page (or any other unframed web page) and it gives you google review, imdb, rotten tomatoes, and MRQE results (MRQE is the best source I've seen for movie reviews).
Posted by: | May 20, 2005 at 06:47 AM