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Google shuts down Google.com/movies
- unpythonic 10y agoThis has been my go-to page for movie information for the longest time. Yet again, Google is training us not to trust that any of their services will be available -- this one seemed to be shutdown without any notice whatsoever. I know it's a free service, and that Google is under no obligation to me. For these reasons, I've never taken them up on their "free" storage, G+, or any other up and coming services. This was a very useful service, and I'll miss it a lot.
- trprog 10y agoHad never heard of it before now which is probably a hint as to why it was shut down.
- mattnumbe 10y agoSame here. I feel like a lot of Google's products aren't well advertised, and canceled without warning. They also tend to be better than most alternatives.
- dontJudge 10y agoditto. For a while google displayed real estate for sale on google maps. I can't quite put my finger on exactly why (maybe that it was google maps), but it was much more useful than the standard real-estate sites. Was sad to see it go.
- bariumbitmap 10y agoI'm going to miss the interface for Google Showtimes. http://web.archive.org/web/20161023155016/http://www.google.com/movies http://web.archive.org/web/20161023155016/http://www.google.... Note the logically arranged sidebar, the simple HTML, and the links to IMDb and Youtube instead of images or embedded videos. Contrast this with Fandango, IMDb, and Yahoo Movies: http://www.fandango.com/ http://www.fandango.com/ http://www.imdb.com/showtimes/ http://www.imdb.com/showtimes/ https://www.yahoo.com/movies/showtimes/ https://www.yahoo.com/movies/showtimes/ Does anyone know of a movies showtimes site with a decent signal-to-noise ratio?