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Do you have an example? ( The two I tried did not work.)


I have another example. I live in Mexico and I watch movies in Spanish/English depending on the channel. The titles are always in Spanish and a lot of times they don't translate clearly to English or they don't make any reference to the title in English. If I am watching a movie I usually try a few Google queries to find about the movie I am watching, to see if I like it or just to know the end. Even with out knowing the title I am usually able to quickly find about the movie even if it is not a blockbuster.

horror thriller where woman goes to russia meets brother

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475937/ - The Abandoned

^The result I was looking for appears first.^

I think it is ludicrous to think that Google can be displace from it position as the global leader of web search in the short or mid term. To displace Google a new search engine wouldn't just have to be better it would have to make Google appear like last century tech. With this said I have to make clear that I am no Google fan or Google hater but I am glad there are other search engines that can at least compete with Google on their national markets (Yandex, Baidu, Naver, Seznam & Yahoo Japan).


In my particular case I watched a movie late one night and didn't know the name of it. Typed the following into google: "movie where a guy plays a vampire and house sits and (spoiler)" and the first result in my case, Body Double, is correct.


"That movie with the living car" came close for me the other day, giving me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine instead of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_(1983_film)




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