Australian users have generally got a lousy deal with local search features on Microsoft’s Bing site, but it has added one useful feature this weekend: movie times when you search on a current movie name. The feature got off to a slightly rocky start on Saturday, but now seems to work pretty well, displaying details directly on the Bing site and without needing to add “movie times” as a keyword.
B
Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 3:45 PMBing? Hilarious. Have Friendster just added any new features that I need to know about?
Pyta
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 12:25 AMBah…googles had that for yeeeaaaarrrrs
Angus Kidman
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 6:08 AMNo it hasn’t. If you search a current movie title on Google and add the words “movie times”, the top result will likely be a site that includes that information, but Google won’t display the times itself using nothing more than the title, which is what Bing does.
cleverclogs
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 1:10 PMBut what’s really dumb is you have to search “film title near place” rather than “film title cinema times” or something similar. No one is going to search for for that actively unless they know they can, and who really, in Australia, knows about Bing and its features.
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RG
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 2:34 PMActually cleverclogs – all you search for is the movie title and it automatically determines where you are located (based on either ISP settings or Bing settings) and displays that information.