If you query "bacon number" (no quotes) before any actor's name, Google will provide you with the actor's Bacon Number and the trail of connections (actor and movie appeared in) leading to Kevin Bacon.
When you get a movie made about your company called "The Social Network" I think you get to safely be able to make that claim. To them, it's a simple database cleanup operation. While it is true that a small portion of SL users who choose Display...
I have some mixed feelings on that last enhancement; searching for my name, as one example, brings up only pages from the "religion" slashtag (if I include my middle initial) or "movie" slashtag (if I don't), and there's no simple way to prevent...
In other words, I can search for a certain restaurant category and then layer movie theater locations followed by branches of my bank where I'll find an ATM. The more people compile collections and the more they become part of a searchable database...
Want to know what the critics say before watching that movie, buying that book or downloading that music? In the left pane of the advanced search form there are also links that let you view alphabetical indexes of all titles in the Metacritic...
On Yahoo Recommender Systems and a Movie Recommendation Tool from the University of Minnesota - Thanks to Greg Linden for point out this 2 page paper (PDF) by several members of the Yahoo Research Lab about recommender systems research that Yahoo...
On Yahoo Recommender Systems and a Movie Recommendation Tool from the University of Minnesota - Thanks to Greg Linden for point out this 2 page paper (PDF) by several members of the Yahoo Research Lab about recommender systems research that Yahoo...
Google Guys Invest in a Motion Picture Being Made by Friend - Via Philipp at Google Blogoscoped, an article in the San Francisco Chronicle that informs us that the Google Guys (Sergey and Larry) are investing in a film titled, " Broken Arrows...
New from from The Internet Movie Database: The Movie Keyword Analyzer, Fun! I once again want to mention the incredible browsable and searchable database with the deceptively misleading name The Online Books Page (OBP).
The Internet Movie Database is a standard and respected reference database for film and TV information, but for film, TV and pop-culture fans it's also a great deal of fun. The (IMDB), owned by Amazon.com, is more than just a "enter a movie title...
Internet Movie Database from Amazon.com. The IMDB is more than just a "enter a movie title or actor's name and get results" type of place. Search page search interface that can help you find an incredible amount of movie/TV info within seconds.
If you're looking for info about older films, enter, film: [title] or movie:[title] into a web search box to trigger the service. Yahoo UK and MSN don't provide movie showtime/info shortcuts but both do offer comprehensive film info sites.
Check out Yahoo's new personalized movie recommendations, launched today. Yahoo Launches Personalized Movie Recommendations May 25, 2005 - Looking for a film recommendation based on your own personal tastes and interests?
Check out Yahoo's new personalized movie recommendations, launched today. Yahoo Launches Personalized Movie Recommendations May 25, 2005 - Looking for a film recommendation based on your own personal tastes and interests?
Movie Service Gets Personal. Rather, it featured a question database that pointed to editorially selected web pages as "answers. Canada Places Adverse Drug Reaction Database Online. Diller also hinted that the company's name might change.
You can even view a movie of their book scanning machine at the University of Toronto here. The San Jose Mercury News and Searchblog report that Rich Skrenta and his team at Topix.net have added three new channels that will be of interest to those...
You can even view a movie of their book scanning machine at the University of Toronto here. It's available with their news search database and offers search-terms based on a controlled vocabulary. According to the news release, the Blinkx video...
According to a company spokesperson, Accoona is derived from the famous scene from the movie "The Lion King," singing the praises of "hakuna matata," or "no worries. How large is the database? Webmasters will be happy to know that a site submit...
One of their projects, MovieLens, offers free access to a movie recommendation service. Recall, the database offering keyword access to a portion of The Wayback Machine, is no longer online (more on that here).
One of their projects, MovieLens, offers free access to a movie recommendation service. Recall, the database offering keyword access to a portion of The Wayback Machine, is no longer online (more on that here).
