Yahoo Search Improves Movie Shortcut Results

By Barry Schwartz

Published: February 23, 2007 at 10:42 am

The Yahoo Search Blog announced they have improved their movie shortcuts to add more information. The added information includes, movie trailers, user and critic ratings, a brief summary, and movie showtimes. For example, a search on Dreamgirls, 10025 brings up this Yahoo Shortcut.

Of course other search engines offer similar results.

+ Google Dreamgirls, 10025 result
+ Ask.com Dreamgirls
+ Live.com Dreamgirls, 10025

Older screenshot shows a bug, but it is now fixed. The bug did not show the local show times based on the zip code…

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

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