A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by lucideer on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:43AM (#28553251)

I tend to prefer Wikipedia for movies. The exception is actor headshots if I'm trying to identify someone, which Wikipedia lacks for licensing reasons, but otherwise Wikipedia tends to be better than IMDB for most needs. Wikipedia has an IMDB link on every article anyway.

Another need I guess might be reviews, for which RT or MC are better than IMDB: not sure if either of those two will fare better than IMDB in this search engine but again Wiki has links out (in addition to good reception summaries)

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by mountainboy on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:21PM (#28554517)

For me, imdb was much better when they had user comments/discussion.

I never even posted on it myself, but browsing the discussions one could learn all sorts of trivia, inside info, speculation, etc about each movie.

Since they (inexplicably) killed that feature, I rarely even visit anymore. Your right, for many purposes wikipedia is better, especially for TV series episode lists with summaries.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by ncphil on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:32PM (#28554616)

IMDB management thought it was their brilliant editorial work that drew people to their site. Morons. It was the comments all along. Of course they also believed they could create gravity-free zones by sheer force of executive will (and maybe still do).

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by _blu on Friday September 17, 2021 @04:49AM (#28562865)

Especially for old and lesser known movies, the discussion board for the movie was a brilliant addition that could give the movie an extra dimension. Context is very important in order to understand, and ulitmately enjoy something.

I think they removed it in part because new movies, like star wars and superhero movies, had alot of negative activity.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by sellyme on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:52PM (#28560287)

I find IMDb to be more convenient than RT/MC/Wikipedia for finding release dates of movies - nearly every other website lists only the American release date, maybe one or two others if the movie was disproportionately popular in certain regions.

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