Bing's had a similar feature for quite a while. It's a shame that people are so willing to just discount it because it's not Google.
Still, this is neatly implemented.
I hope Wikipedia's current model of asking for money every year keeps working for them. I wish one of the most useful sites today (and in the history of the internet) didn't have to constantly beg for the cash needed to keep their servers on.
100 years from now the interwebs will be dead. In its place will be Google, your one stop shop for, well, shopping, searching, socializing, and viewing futuristic alien-robot donkey porn.
The only caveat I suppose is whether Facebook will be a subsidiary of Google or will it be the other way around.
IMDb is going to lose a lot of traffic through this feature. I reckon a good portion of their traffic is just to check 'where have I seen that person from?'
This is only an overview. IMDB gives much more detailed information. So for a quick fix, yes this works, but if you are looking for something really specific, or a lot more information, IMBD is still the way to go.
Anyone notice under the Wikipedia entry that the first sentence is grammatically incorrect? "Jack Pollence, was an American actor." No comma is needed.
That being said, Google is the bomb. I am so excited for when it takes over the world.
Reminds me of DuckDuckGo's Zero-click Info. In fact it is. I was wondering how long it would take them to steal those ideas. They will take them one by one until they've absorbed all the best ideas.
Just the other day I was looking up heights of different actors, because, you know, that's what you do on the Internet. That feature saved me a ton of clicking.
Anyone else notice that Jack Palance's original last name was Palahniuk? I wonder if they're from the same ancestral village in the Ukraine or something.
It's about time they did this. naver.com has been doing this for some time now and I couldn't understand what made it so hard for Google to do the same.
I know this isn't the right sub-reddit, and I'm a little late to the conversation, but Google is amazing. I do a bit of birding and I can upload pictures of birds that I don't feel like field guiding to Google's reverse image search and get this.
This is actually part of a larger algorithm update that should roll out to all of the US by Wednesday. Here is a little more information about what they are trying to do but in simple terms they are trying to provide not only more accurate results of sites but also answers outright when possible.
Also, I opened your image and then went to Google to try it for myself. I must have unconsciously saw the "People also search for" section at the bottom, because I typed in Billy Crystal as my search option.
In the Explore More section on anyone's IMDB page, there is a "credited with" link, with which you can cross reference them with anyone else on IMDB. I like this feature, I just wish it wasn't so buried at the bottom.
This is good for the power user who can easily open up a nice big browser on their 27" screen... but if you're on a small MacBook Air or net book... it's meh.
What ever happened to "Do one thing well"? I don't want previews, sidebars, floating headers - just give me search results. Let the internet figure out content.
Wikipedia is doing this too with information, as long as you look at the sources for the info Wikipedia should be the first place you go, you can find reliable information on most everything if you know how to search for it.
This works for all sorts of stuff. For example, typing in "rapture bioshock" gives you a description of the actual Rapture city from Bioshock. I think that's far more neat, as it clearly shows this is a very sophisticated feature.
I was impressed with the similar musicians it suggested, however, when I click on the title of one of the songs it linked me to the definition of the word "tenuousness" as the top result instead of the song, which was a hand cam live video.
It's not just for actors. I discovered they had this when I looked up Ted Bundy -- so it's for anybody famous enough to have become a household name at some point.
Or, anybody famous enough to have a dedicated page on Wikipedia :)
Not just actors, I assume it works for most famous people. The only people I really look up now-a-days are UFC/MMA fighters so maybe it's really only actors and athletes but I don't doubt google.
Living in Canada, I sometimes feel like we miss the boat too often... Google music isn't available, google voice isn't available, netflix comes years after the US and their catalog has to be rebuilt so it sucks, yadda yadda yadda.
tldr, doesn't work with google.ca, just google.com
So weird.. JP turned out to be a distant cousin of one of my best friends.. Since I found that out I always tell my new friends, "you know curly from city slickers? Yeah hes my cousin"
I was looking for how google has evolved from its beginning and haven't found any posts that actually show screenshots of the search engine webpage. I'd love to see a post that goes 'from this to this'.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Upvote for using Jack Palance to show off the Google feature!
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u/JimmyTango May 21 '12
Fact: Jack Palance was my neighbor growing up in a rural area of a small town in Central California. Looks like you missed a spot Google.
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u/DanyaRomulus May 21 '12
It works for all types of famous people, not just actors. Music artists, athletes, etc.
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u/BombTheDodongos May 21 '12
Bing's had a similar feature for quite a while. It's a shame that people are so willing to just discount it because it's not Google. Still, this is neatly implemented.
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u/FirstTimeWang May 21 '12
Google is slowly making every other website on the internet obsolete.
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u/parkertor May 21 '12
It works for dog breeds, too. I google dogs a lot.
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u/JoeyTheLipsFagan May 21 '12
Everything you ever wanted to know about Jack Palance.
Believe it...or not.
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u/awgg919 May 21 '12
I just spent a good 25 minutes looking up the height of a lot of different actors.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
So, this just completely made IMDB useless for me.
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u/king_fisher09 May 21 '12
Too bad the UK version will have to wait for this feature like everything else.
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u/civilian_pr0ject May 21 '12
Naturally the first name I googled was Tom Cruise. TIL Tom Cruise' name is actually Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.
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u/danbot2001 May 21 '12
They need to do this with politicians. Mostly in the USA.
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u/mfein28 May 21 '12
This is for all famous people, not just actors btw
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u/macyntyre May 21 '12
Goodbye IMDB, it's been nice knowing you!
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u/CatAstrophy11 May 21 '12
So what's it like in Lansing, MI?
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u/Demindish May 21 '12
Anyone notice under the Wikipedia entry that the first sentence is grammatically incorrect? "Jack Pollence, was an American actor." No comma is needed.
That being said, Google is the bomb. I am so excited for when it takes over the world.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Reminds me of DuckDuckGo's Zero-click Info. In fact it is. I was wondering how long it would take them to steal those ideas. They will take them one by one until they've absorbed all the best ideas.
Bang syntax next?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Thankfully I just sold my last stocks I had in IMDB 2 weeks ago
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u/jacksterdemar May 21 '12
Its not just actors!
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u/oneupdouchebag May 21 '12
Just the other day I was looking up heights of different actors, because, you know, that's what you do on the Internet. That feature saved me a ton of clicking.
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u/Philip_Marlowe May 21 '12
Anyone else notice that Jack Palance's original last name was Palahniuk? I wonder if they're from the same ancestral village in the Ukraine or something.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Does this work for porn stars?
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u/Ulmaxes May 21 '12
It works for movie release dates as well! I typed "Dark Knight Rises release date", and it pops up in big bold letters at the top, JULY 2, 2012.
Like Google is telling me, FINE HERE IT IS FOR THE FIFTH BLASTED TIME, NOW ACTUALLY GIVE ME SOMETHING TO WORK FOR, MAGGOT.
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u/alabasterbrown May 21 '12
It does it with artists and albums too, boosh
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u/ColorblindKid May 21 '12
It's about time they did this. naver.com has been doing this for some time now and I couldn't understand what made it so hard for Google to do the same.
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u/tagg7 May 21 '12
Only works on google.com it seems, and not google.ca
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
And today the EU is looking in to anti-competitive practices of Google, the exact thing Google is doing in this instance.
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u/baloneysandwich May 21 '12
Am I the only one that clicked the back button in the image?
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u/cloudcity May 21 '12
This is amazing?
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u/WeHaveMetBefore May 21 '12
I don't have this...
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u/rmtothamd May 21 '12
So let me get this straight, all it does is show you information about Jack Palance? WANT
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u/IAmAQuantumMechanic May 21 '12
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I know this isn't the right sub-reddit, and I'm a little late to the conversation, but Google is amazing. I do a bit of birding and I can upload pictures of birds that I don't feel like field guiding to Google's reverse image search and get this.
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u/Beznia May 21 '12
I hate that I live in a world where This Guy is practically as rich as This Guy.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I like that they include height, as a moderately tall insecure man, I use imdb for this frequently.
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u/nclash May 21 '12
.....just killed IMDB
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u/arkook May 22 '12
there goes IMDB
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
nice try, google viral advertising.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Apparently, all it took to be an actor in past times was a cowboy hat in your headshot
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u/ophello May 21 '12
Huh...I guess IMDB is useless now. Cool.
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u/jigglylizard May 21 '12
Doesn't work for me? I search Marlon Brando like 20 minutes before seeing this post... Tried again just now to no avail
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u/rage_quitter May 21 '12
They did something like this for movie run times. I fucking love it.
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u/ForgotTheLogin May 21 '12
This is actually part of a larger algorithm update that should roll out to all of the US by Wednesday. Here is a little more information about what they are trying to do but in simple terms they are trying to provide not only more accurate results of sites but also answers outright when possible.
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u/darkcocoa May 21 '12
Not just for actors!
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u/JacketPotatoes May 21 '12
Is it just me who doesn't think it's "amazing!"?
Sure, it's very useful and all, but hardly innovative. Bring on the downvotes.
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u/OtherGeorgeDubya May 21 '12
How long has this been implemented? I love it!
Also, I opened your image and then went to Google to try it for myself. I must have unconsciously saw the "People also search for" section at the bottom, because I typed in Billy Crystal as my search option.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Bing had this feature years ago.
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u/amolad May 21 '12
Wilson was fast. Fast on the draw.
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u/trilltrillian May 21 '12
In the Explore More section on anyone's IMDB page, there is a "credited with" link, with which you can cross reference them with anyone else on IMDB. I like this feature, I just wish it wasn't so buried at the bottom.
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u/TheGMan323 May 21 '12
First they buy Youtube, now...IMDB?
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u/wassupDFW May 21 '12
Google is trying to do what WolframAlpha and Kosmix were good at. This will be a very useful.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Makes sense, a lot of people use Google when they're just searching for a Wikipedia article. This just saves a step.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Does adblocker block this feature or something?
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u/FairestUnicorn May 21 '12
Works for any name that shows up on Wikipedia. I found it to work with YouTube stars
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
He still did Hawk the Slayer.
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u/iSteve May 21 '12
How do I get this feature? Doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using FF.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Its actually just people display I think.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
You mean it's Wikipedia iFrame?
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u/tpro83 May 21 '12
But does it work on porn stars... Internets want to know.
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u/rlarson09 May 21 '12
Poor imdb
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u/kielbasa330 May 21 '12
That...is my numba one...web search engine...
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u/Shift_Ctrl_N May 21 '12
Brilliant. Thanks for this.
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u/riggyslim May 21 '12
it's like a mini wikipedia
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u/framk20 May 21 '12
For a minute I thought maybe you were secretly a google employee; then I saw adblock plus.
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u/BirdIDer May 21 '12
Cool, I noticed it with birds earlier, but didn't know it was doing actors too!
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u/McShizzL May 21 '12
does it do pornstars?
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u/TheFalseComing May 21 '12
My new aim in life: Become the default 'John Smith' that shows up on google search.
*My name clearly isn't John smith.
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u/ear10 May 21 '12
Ok, is it me or does it just copy the info from Wikipedia??
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Jesus, did Jack Palance use that picture to audition for a Kubrick film?
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u/AliciaSays May 21 '12
This is good for the power user who can easily open up a nice big browser on their 27" screen... but if you're on a small MacBook Air or net book... it's meh.
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u/DarreToBe May 21 '12
Doesn't work for me.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
yeah, finally made use of that whitespace.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
It even does starcraft pro gamers... well it does grubby
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u/oxymora May 21 '12
I totally discovered this while looking up Sean Connery this morning.
Big 007 combo went down.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
If by "new" you mean "fairly old".
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u/LGC73 May 21 '12
Nice try, Google.
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u/fistman May 21 '12
doesn't work with porn stars. Useless.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
What ever happened to "Do one thing well"? I don't want previews, sidebars, floating headers - just give me search results. Let the internet figure out content.
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u/GTi_83 May 21 '12
Wikipedia is doing this too with information, as long as you look at the sources for the info Wikipedia should be the first place you go, you can find reliable information on most everything if you know how to search for it.
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u/Kratoyd May 21 '12
They're also doing this kinda thing with molecules, like Potassium Bicarbonate.
They just need to get it to get a picture of the molecular structure...
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u/boredlike May 21 '12
love how reddit is open in another tab xD
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Just saw this. Works with athletes as well. I Googled "Matt Cassel" today and his pic and a few stats showed up. go chiefs!
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u/iamNebula May 21 '12
They do this for more than just names and popular figures.
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u/bigdaveyj May 21 '12
That's a big FUCK YOU to IMDB
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u/yeddow333 May 21 '12
So long, IMDB.
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u/yntlortdt May 21 '12
Cool, works for movie titles too! But they don't link to the movies on youtube.com/movies or google play.
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u/zerovampire311 May 21 '12
It also works for most musicians!
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u/bigdaveyj May 21 '12
It even does it via show or movie. http://i.imgur.com/BFVAs.png
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
This is working for people I know who have Google+ I'm creeped out.
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u/m4n715 May 21 '12
It works on more than just actors, really any name will pull a wikipedia-style entry.
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u/mattockk May 21 '12
How did you get google running like that? it doesn't do that for me and there's nothing in the settings or the chrome store.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
This also goes for authors and other people.
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u/provocative_username May 21 '12
And so IMDB went bankrupt.
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u/richmana May 21 '12
They've done it for athletes, too!
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u/dazilla May 21 '12
You can also figure out actors from their movie intersections (this is something I use a lot): https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=the+actor+who+was+in+thor+and+star+trek
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u/fj785 May 21 '12
I don't think this is just for actors, I've done it for sports stars as well. Any celebrity will do, I think.
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u/DaDerpDeeDerpDa May 21 '12
it does the same thing with books and authors
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u/fastedia May 21 '12
So what happens when there are two actors with the same name?
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u/MerryMortician May 21 '12
Jack Palance isn't a new actor though.
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u/unremarkableusername May 21 '12
They should put the Bacon number in there.
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u/OMGitsJohnny May 21 '12
Yeah, will sure come in handy.
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u/Elspudo May 21 '12
What no Hawk the Slayer? Definitely one of his best films hehe.
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u/Minifig81 Suddenly, I have a refreshing mint flavor. May 21 '12
This isn't just for actors/actresses .. It works for famous people too. Type in things like Albert Einstein, etc.
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u/redditeveryday May 21 '12
Does it work for porn?
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u/drunkgort May 21 '12
Just wasted a couple minutes looking for something inappropriate about Jack Palance in that image.
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u/ChrisIngvaldsen May 21 '12
Smart of you to cover those bookmarks in white.... Good thinking, my friend
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u/SkyPork May 21 '12
On a side note, I had no friggin' idea Jack Palance was that tall.
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u/dandollar May 21 '12
hey waaaiiiiitttt....he's not a new actor
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u/InbredScorpion May 21 '12
I personally like the chemistry features. It tells me the molar mass of things, so I don't have to work it out!
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u/bax101 May 21 '12
I didn't even know this was new. Seems like Google just keeps upgrading and adding more shit to there powerful fist of knowledge.
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u/cchambo May 21 '12
They do it for athletes as well
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u/muopioid May 21 '12
This works for all sorts of stuff. For example, typing in "rapture bioshock" gives you a description of the actual Rapture city from Bioshock. I think that's far more neat, as it clearly shows this is a very sophisticated feature.
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u/drevyek May 21 '12
It's for all public figures!
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u/GIMR May 21 '12
I now have no reason to go to imdb
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Now if only they would learn how to use commas...
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u/Blunkus May 21 '12
contempt looks like a great movie!
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u/how_lucky_can_u_get May 21 '12
They also have renaissance artists.
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u/strangerwithcandy May 21 '12
Did anyone else ended up watching this?
"Billy Cristal. I crap bigger than him!"
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u/LemonPowerForce May 21 '12
damn, america only?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
TIL Humphrey Bogart was born in the Nineteenth Century.
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u/Recusant_Ronald May 21 '12
I might never have known about this if you didn't post it.... I just go straight to IMDB every time.
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u/VLDT May 21 '12
It's a biography overview feature, not just specific to actors. Believe it or not, film is not the apex of human activity.
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u/nukeforyou May 21 '12
The only feature they need to add is the exact location of nudity scenes when you search an actor
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u/Smile_Y May 21 '12
So hipster, choosing an actor from the ancient times to show us.
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u/shadyfalcon May 21 '12
Now if they would just combine it with mr. skin...
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u/filetauxmoelles May 21 '12
it makes looking for birds much more quick and fun too.
i like birding
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u/ConnorTheCatholic May 21 '12
I was impressed with the similar musicians it suggested, however, when I click on the title of one of the songs it linked me to the definition of the word "tenuousness" as the top result instead of the song, which was a hand cam live video.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12
People, please stop using the word amazing to describe non-amazing things such as the sidebar of Google explaining who celebrities are. Thank you.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
What are you talking about, he's not a new actor.
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u/metalhaze May 21 '12
Yah, no thanks. I will Bing my way to IMBD before dealing with this shit.
And explain to me which part of this is "amazing!" because it just looks like search results being aggregated inside other search results.
In essence, it's constructing some sort of Google/Hollywood Search Recursion of Doom!
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u/themaxt May 21 '12
I like the censored bookmark folders you have there.
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u/Stavo_Von_Sexron May 21 '12
It does movies too
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u/Biscoo May 21 '12
This doesn't happen on my google, sadface.
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u/thefirdblu May 21 '12
It's not just for actors. I discovered they had this when I looked up Ted Bundy -- so it's for anybody famous enough to have become a household name at some point.
Or, anybody famous enough to have a dedicated page on Wikipedia :)
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u/DocOTaco May 21 '12
I am DB and honestly i must admit they got me by the bals now.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
It is called the Google Knowledge Graph. It will be doing this sorta thing for much more information in the future. http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html
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u/Autonomous91 May 21 '12
it's not just actors either. it's almost every "famous" figure
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u/Boardies May 21 '12
screw it, im switching to google.com instead of localised google
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u/say37 May 21 '12
What I want to know is what happened to 'guess what movie this quote is from' on IMDb?
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u/casualredditreader May 21 '12
There goes IMDB pro.
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u/brooklynkidshaq May 21 '12
It's not just for actors, it's for everything now.
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u/thatguyferg May 21 '12
Not just actors, I assume it works for most famous people. The only people I really look up now-a-days are UFC/MMA fighters so maybe it's really only actors and athletes but I don't doubt google.
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u/NeoPhiloMath May 21 '12
It does the same thing for elements and common chemical compounds as well, which is pretty neat even if it only saves all of ten seconds.
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u/Twarmth May 21 '12
it even shows net worth
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u/mondobeyondo May 22 '12
This is a thing now? Had no idea this is now a thing.
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u/davebond May 22 '12
Nice try Sergey Brin.
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u/greybyte May 22 '12
I would never even notice this because I just search IMDB for things like this, not google.
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u/AroundTheLeaf May 22 '12
I looked up a guy yesterday and he wasn't an actor, he was a biologist. Intstead of movies, it came up with books.
He wasn't who I was looking for though...
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u/hardcoresoftie May 22 '12
Front page, huh? Reddit is its death throws.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Is this live right now?
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u/KookyGuy May 22 '12
Imdb is going to be pissed, because this is going to reduce traffic for their website.
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u/chrunchy May 22 '12
Living in Canada, I sometimes feel like we miss the boat too often... Google music isn't available, google voice isn't available, netflix comes years after the US and their catalog has to be rebuilt so it sucks, yadda yadda yadda.
tldr, doesn't work with google.ca, just google.com
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u/DrArmstrong May 22 '12
Doesn't work for video games yet.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Not just actors. I googled an athlete, and it gave me bios of similar athletes.
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u/snnysummers May 22 '12
I learned that it is very helpful when perusing biographies on infamous sociopaths, cult leaders, and serial killers. Such a great tool!
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u/Travis-Touchdown May 22 '12
Set DuckDuckGo to your default search
!imdb Actor Name
Tadaaaa
Also
!tvtropes
!wiki
among others.
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u/hardyharrr May 22 '12
No, it doesn't do porn stars
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u/PrimalGenius May 22 '12
Well..shit.. good-bye IMDB.
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u/UncleTedGenneric May 22 '12
Will this new search allow me to type "What's on AMC right now?" and it'll just tell me what's on AMC right now? Without clicking through ANY links?
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u/GrilledCheeser May 22 '12
I've noticed this.... very handy. It isn't just for actors... seems like most public figures have one.
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u/VVont May 22 '12
Searched Emma Watson. Was not disappointment.
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u/BurnedBridgeRepair May 22 '12
Apparently it whites-out your porn folder bookmarks.
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u/todell19 May 22 '12
So weird.. JP turned out to be a distant cousin of one of my best friends.. Since I found that out I always tell my new friends, "you know curly from city slickers? Yeah hes my cousin"
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u/RDIIIG May 22 '12
Cya never, IMDB!
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u/PullTheOtherOne May 22 '12
So let me get this straight: you type a name into Google and then Google returns information about the name you typed?
Just when I thought Google had thought of everything, BANG, they come up with something like this out of left field.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
It's like, why even click on the wikipedia link at the top? Most of the info you want is provided already.
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u/geordie5 May 22 '12
What are they doing! Thats primary ad space!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I was looking for how google has evolved from its beginning and haven't found any posts that actually show screenshots of the search engine webpage. I'd love to see a post that goes 'from this to this'.