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Thursday, February 24, 2005

What's New at Google? Google Movies. Find Reviews of Movies with the movie: search operator

Tags: Google, Search, Movies, Movie Reviews, Bollywood, Hollywood, Blog, Blogging, Blogosphere, and Search Engines for Technorati Tags.

What's New at Google?
Google Movies.
Find Movie Reviews with the movie: search operator.

Examples:

- Search movie reviews by name.
movie:The Fast and The Furious, movie:Lagaan
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, The Aviator
Finding Neverland

- Search movie reviews by cast member.
movie:Penelope Cruz, movie:Aishwarya Rai, movie:Preity Zinta
movie:Will Smith, movie:Sylvester Stallone
movie:Julia Roberts AND Richard Gere
movie:Denise Richards AND Neve Campbell
movie:Will Smith AND Jackie Chan
movie:Catherine Zeta Jones AND Pierce Brosnan

- Search movie reviews by actor and director.
movie:Tom Hanks AND Steven Spielberg

- Search movie reviews by director.
movie:Steven Spielberg, movie:Steven Spielberg AND Tom Hanks

- Search for Showtimes and Listings in your City.
movie:NYC, movie:Santa Clara, CA; movie:Charleston, SC

- Search by Keywords and Phrases.
movie:Bike Stunts, movie:James Bond, movie:Austin Powers
movie:Lost in the jungle, movie:Jackie Chan comedy, movie:Fast Car Chases, movie:Intelligent and thought provoking

Sort Google Movies results by:
- Relevance (Number of reviews). This is the default setting.
- Rating (Number of stars).
- Date (The latest reviews first). I prefer this.

How to form a Google Movies search query?
Use the search string as shown in the examples below.
- http://www.google.com/reviews?q=MovieName
- http://www.google.com/reviews?q=Word1+Word2+Word3
- http://www.google.com/reviews?q=The+Aviator
- http://www.google.com/reviews?q=Million+Dollar+Baby

Try different searches with Google Movies Search.
Happy Movie Reviews searching with Google Movies.

Related:
- Ben Hammersley on Google Movies. (via Kottke.org).

Tags: Google, Search, Movies, Movie Reviews, Bollywood, Hollywood, Blog, Blogging, Blogosphere, and Search Engines for Technorati Tags.

Cheers
Chirayu