Microsoft Media Madness: Bing Movie Search
December 4, 2010
Will Microsoft ace the Google in movie search? After watching a teen fiddle with the a Google TV in a big box store, that’s a tough question. Meh.
“Bing updates its movie search” on Cnet touts the Microsoft search engine’s revamped cinema page with its larger list of reviews and clips and driving distance to local theaters. With more prominent graphics, it’s much prettier than Google, I’ll give it that. However, in my city I get a much larger list of local theaters, right on the movie’s main page on Google, so I don’t have to click again. I know where the cinemas are in my town, and I usually have some idea of what I want to see, so for me the Google search works a little better.
Cnet’s argument is:
Bing’s revamped movie page is now similar to the one offered by Google.Searching for a movie at Google also shows you local show times, links to reviews, and a video of the movie’s trailer all in one spot. But Bing offers a greater variety and number of reviews and a wider selection of trailers and other clips.
Not really that exciting, in my book., but Bing does have that little extra oomph with the eye candy, which I’m sure many will find appealing.
Alice Wasielewski, December 4, 2010, 2010
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