Thursday, February 24, 2005
Google Movie:search
Google has a new search operator--movie:.
You can type movie:[your term] and get supposedly get in your results movies about that topic.
If you enter movie:librarians, "Party Girl" is the first title returned. This is a movie that actually is, to some extent, about librarians and librarianship.
Then again, if you try movie:computer geeks, the first title is "Aladdin." This movie will appeal to computer geeks, but isn't about them.
You know the story.
Anyway, it's a fun new feature and illustrates the concept of aboutness and keywords vs. subjects. It also demonstrates that typical researchers don't know everything there is to know about Google searching.
You can type movie:[your term] and get supposedly get in your results movies about that topic.
If you enter movie:librarians, "Party Girl" is the first title returned. This is a movie that actually is, to some extent, about librarians and librarianship.
Then again, if you try movie:computer geeks, the first title is "Aladdin." This movie will appeal to computer geeks, but isn't about them.
You know the story.
Anyway, it's a fun new feature and illustrates the concept of aboutness and keywords vs. subjects. It also demonstrates that typical researchers don't know everything there is to know about Google searching.
// posted by Jenna @ 6:00 PM 
