Search Engine Journal

MSN Adds Instant Answers for Movie Showtimes…Kind Of

Interesting entry over at the MSN Search blog; MSN has added an “instant answer” functionality for movies, making it more than just your run-of-the-mill find a movie theater and showtimes kind of deal. Searchers can actually browse movie genres, movie ratings, and other film-related phrases. Here’s an example:

childrens movies

Pretty slick, but once I started playing with it, not so much. It didn’t seem to work with the phrase romantic movies or foreign films, but just fine with action movies. And my search for g movies brought back a PG and a PG-13 movie. Meh.

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Wendy Boswell is the Editor of About.com’s Websearch and also blogs at Uncover The Internet.