Two thumbs up (for movie search tweaks)
| Monday, October 15th, 2007 | --Sean |
When I had first written about the movie Y! Search shortcut a little while back, it had disappointed me that just using a movie name as the query without appending any sort of locational information wouldn't give any sort of showtimes information at all. You could retype the query with your zip code appended to get it to show up or use the provided input box to jump to a separate showtimes page, but it felt clunky and not at all integrated into the experience. After chugging through all the videos on this mildly interesting promotional site for Y! Search, though, I noticed that movie searches now will use your default location for showtimes unless otherwise specified, and also that editing the module to provide a new location actually brings the results directly back into the page instead of making you load up our movies site. This experience has been rated a solid A both by Yahoo! Users and by the Critics.