Information Madness

Everytime there is new movie release, people starts googling(mind you, google is an official word in oxford dictionary now, check this out) about the movie. So yes, I am one of them. But I was surprised when I search for "Krazzy 4, ahmedabad" in google.co.in. I got the the result as shown above.

Looks like Google India has rolled out a new feature "Movie Showtime Search". You can search for movies that are playing in your city by just entering the city name @ google.co.in/movies. 

Below is the screenshot of the movie search for Ahmedabad. Google India lists all the showtime in different theaters for a particular movie in the location you have selected.

To find reviews and showtimes for movies playing near you, you can type "movies", "showtimes" or the name of a current film into the Google search box. If you've already saved your location by using Google Local, the top search result will display showtimes for nearby theaters for the movie you've chosen.

You can find out more about the Movies search feature at Google Help Docs. So what wil happen to the sites that were batting on the "movie search" feature on their websites?

Thanks Amit