The Yahoo! search blog announced that movie trailer
shortcuts are live: just add trailer to a movie title as a search string, and viola. This is a clear advantage
over Google, which delivers generic search results when you ask for trailers. Yahoo!'s trailer shortcuts point to
Yahoo! Movies, naturally. But even Yahoo! Movies can't package a trailer lineup comparable to iTunes, whose
exhaustive catalog and easy display settings provides a great environment for trailer-hopping.
Yahoo! Search also shortcuts to showtimes if you stick a zip code into the search string. Google does that, too. Each
engine works well in this regard. Yahoo!
includes user reviews in the resulting information packasge; Google aggregates reviews also,
but professional ones.
Yahoo! Search Adds Shortcuts to Movie Trailers
Reader Comments
(Page 1)4. Being that most of the reviews on Google were from Epinions.com, their aggregate review rating is hardly a professional opinion.
I prefer the way Yahoo! makes two distinct categories: critics and users.
Advantage: Yahoo!
Posted at 5:45AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Scott-O-Rama
1. Being that most of the reviews on Google were from Epinions.com, their aggregate review rating is hardly a professional opinion.
I prefer the way Yahoo! makes two distinct categories: critics and users.
Advantage: Yahoo!
Posted at 5:45AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Scott-O-Rama