Heads up, movie fans — today we’ve launched a mobile version of our new Google Search results for movies, which makes it easier to plan a trip to the movies. Just go to google.com in the web browser on your iPhone, Palm WebOS, or Android-powered device, search for “movies”, and then tap on the “More movies” link. From there, you can either browse a list of movies or select the “Theaters” button to browse a list of theaters near you.
Our new movie listings page now includes buttons to play trailers right on your phone, ratings and categories, movie posters, upcoming showtimes, and a concise list of the nearest theaters and their distances from you. We keep information on this page succinct so you can quickly browse through shows and showtimes to help you decide which movie to see. If you want more details about a specific movie, just touch the poster or movie title and you’ll see our new movie details page that has a synopsis of the movie, a more detailed list of showtimes, the cast and crew, and pictures. Watch our trailer for a quick demo:
When you browse by theater, you’ll see a map of the theaters nearest to you. Then, just tap on the link to any particular theater to see what shows are playing there and what times they’re playing. Of course, you can also search for specific movies or theaters and see their listings right away. Try searching for recent movies like “New Moon” or “Where the Wild Things Are” or search for “glendale 18 los angeles”.
If you enjoy searching for movies with Google nearly as much as we have during testing, then this will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Our new search results for movies are available in English in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. As always, let us know your feedback. This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
Posted by Nick Fey, User Experience Designer, Google mobile team
Finally we’ve got a new phone from Apple, with great new features, here is a snapshot:
- 3 Megapixels camera with video recording and editing
- Voice control
- Compass
- Better autonomy
- Copy paste of course with the 3.0 Firmware (available for download on the 17th June)
- MMS
- Search in all applications centralized
- iPhone as a modem, finally…
- Find my iPhone, in case it is lost or stolen (could be useful)
- Buy or rent movies straight on the iPhone, not for me…
- TomTom incar navigation, good good news
The team behind The Pirate Bay, the largest BitTorrent tracker on the web, just released ViO, a free video converter that claims to be able to reduce AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV and other file types to 20% of it’s original file size without reducing the image quality, faster than any other converter. It’s intended for reformatting video files for mobile devices like the iPhone and iPod touch.
The mildly entertaining redemption story of The Rocker hinges on a Mac. Serial-geek actor Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute from The Office) plays an almost-been heavy metal drummer called Robert Fishman. His niece, annoyed that she can’t do her homework, uploads a video of his sweaty practice session from her iMac. It goes viral. The rest is history.