September 09, 2005

How to Use Google Movies for Reviews and Show Times

Not only am I a "Movie Dork", but I'm also a "Computer Dork" -which makes it difficult picking up women at times- and I wanted to bring Google's movie tag to your attention. This may be old hat for some of you but it's still a fairly new feature to the Google search and I find it very useful.

When doing a Google search on a movie title, place the following tag before it (movie:). For example, if you want to read the reviews for Superman, then you would type in (movie: Superman). This will return all of the reviews for Superman collected by the Google index, the star rating and a total average rating bases on the results.

Google movies can also search for show times within your area and list the theater locations the movie is showing in. By adding your zip code, Google will search all of the available show times and list them in the results. Type in (movies: Transporter 2 14221). Try it out; I've grown to love it and it's much faster than searching for reviews on individual sites and using Fandango to find out show times.


Posted by Brad Shipston at September 9, 2005 01:41 PM


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Have you seen ?
http://www.google.com/ig
Once you've signed in you can customize it and add movie showtimes and reviews.
I use it as my homepage.

/hides nerd hat

Posted by: Webbie at September 9, 2005 03:50 PM

Webbie, a nerd indeed! Thanks by the way. I've just done that now.

Same with you Brad. ;-)

Posted by: Simone [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 9, 2005 05:04 PM

Also, have you seen Google SMS http://www.google.com/sms/ You can search for the local movie places and the local movie times from your cell phone through text messages. It works really well. I had a business trip to Portland this summer and it worked really well up there. Just thought you might like it.

Posted by: Aaron Myers [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 9, 2005 07:24 PM

Googles has become the place to for most everything.
Donna A.

Posted by: Donna A. at September 9, 2005 09:01 PM

If God is the collective consciousness of humanity, then Google is God.

Posted by: Franklin at September 11, 2005 04:26 AM

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