Explore TV Series and Popular Movie Actors with Yahoo! Video Search
Building on the great feedback we received after the launch of the Yahoo! Video Search music refiners last month, we are launching even more entertainment refiners today. These two new refiners will help you explore your favorite TV shows and movies.
You can see that the left rail on our video search results page is becoming a place where you can use new ways to explore online videos. By hooking into the “Web of Things,” we have created intelligent contextual refiners to narrow down your search intent intuitively.
The TV refiner that we are launching today organizes TV series queries into main characters, popular episodes, and seasons. If you are looking for clips from the TV series “How I Met Your Mother,” you can explore clips from the show by its popular main characters, like Robin Scherbatsky and Lily Aldrin.
You can explore the show by popular episodes like Drumroll and Sandcastles in the Sand; or see clips chronologically by season.
You can choose to see clips from popular video hosting sites, such as Hulu.com and Joost.com, many of which offer high quality, exclusive content.
We are also launching the Movie Actors refiner in Yahoo! Video Search today for popular movie actors. If you are looking for videos of Tom Hanks, the Movie Actors refiner on the left rail helps you explore Tom Hanks’ work by showing links to video clips from his most popular movies like Big, Forrest Gump, and Philadelphia. This way, you can easily and quickly watch some of your favorite Tom Hanks performances.
These refiners are a part of our continued effort to better understand search intent and deliver search results that matter to you most. Give the TV and Movie Actors refiners in Yahoo! Video Search a try and use the comments section to let us know what you think.
Nilesh Gattani and Ranjita Naik
Yahoo! Video Search
This is really nice advancement on the concept of faceted set building, but in going to the “How I met your Mother” example above, I found that you’re pointing the TVGuide.com which expires much of their content due to their tight exhibition windows. That makes for a terrible experience. You either need to synch up w/sites’ policies or not include them otherwise users will not find the service very valuable despite all of the great work you have all done.
Suggest have complete 1 week TV LISTINGS for each community. I don’t think any one else has done this.
Or , if done, it is verydifficult & cumbersome.
This is an excellent source!!!! Where in Yahoo do I go to find this?
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