Unexpected Googleness
Posted by Skrud at Sunday, October 16th 2005 at 11:31am
I was catching on Angry Zen Master and noticed Jamie’s blog post about Domino, and the fact that it looked like it would be a fun movie… Jamie Noguchi is a man who has declared war on all shitty movies. So I googled for “Domino” hoping to find a website explaining who Domino Harvey was: a model-turned-bounty-hunter the “real life” inspiration for the movie. I planned to e-mail my findings to Jamie to remind him that it was another shitty movie that he was fighting against… What I found surprised me.
Where the spell-check usually is, Google had placed a link with the movie title, the runtime, all of the genres, and even a searchbox asking for a City (presumably for showtimes) and typing in Montreal indeed brought up listings for local theatres – complete with Google Map directions. Clicking the link brought me not only to a simple page of reviews, that would be too simple, but to a page of reviews organized by “negative”, “positive” and “neutral”. Star ratings are easily seen at a glance for each review, as well as an oversized amalgamated star rating in the top-left corner. There’s even a list of common terms mentioned in the reviews that you can use to search and further narrow your findings.
I was curious, so I checked this with another movie, Hackers, which yielded nothing. Okay, maybe it’s too obscure. Star Wars? Nope. It turns out this special listing only happens with currently playing movies. Serenity.
I just discovered something creepy. I did the same thin as you, and lo and behold, GOOGLE KNEW MY ADDRESS!!!
Now, I’m sure that this is because I’ve done google map searches before, but it’s still kinda disquieting when google knows where you live, indefinatly.
I can’t even find an option to tell google to “forget” my address.
There are posters for that movie in the metro. “Domino” is Kiera Knightley and it looked so absurdly ridiculous (little 90 pound girl with a couple of 6’4 200+ lbs guys on each side that I wrote that movie off forever in my mind.
hey, any movie that has keira knightley nekkid, or at the very least doing a striptease, has my vote for best movie of the millenium.