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.
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 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Scott-O-Rama