Google Is Testing User Ratings For Movies, TV Within Search Results

Google has confirmed to Search Engine Land that it is testing a feature allowing users to rate movies or TV shows directly in the search results interface. "We're currently experimenting with the feature but have nothing to announce at this time," a Google spokesperson said. TechCrunch reports: Unlike other movie and TV rating platforms, Google's feature is not on a scale from one to five but instead offers a binary choice: like or dislike. Information about weather, ticket purchasing options and more used to be available on unique, individual websites. Today, however, Google has incorporated this information and functionality into the search results layer of its own service. Within the movie ratings feature, users will also be able to see the Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb ratings for the title, as they always have. You can view a screenshot of the rating system here.

And who shall rate those self-same raters?

[shanen]

Seriously, unless the personal reputation of the raters as actual human beings is taken into account, then the system will be worthless. There has to be symmetry between the reliability of the raters for their ratings to have any reliability.

Almost all of these systems get polluted by gamesters and trolls, often using sock puppets. I'm not saying that anonymity needs to be eliminated, but if you do elect to be anonymous, then your opinions should be discounted as not really representing your public position. However in a situation like this, I do think that anonymous raters should be discounted to zero.

However, I've made basically the same argument as regards fixing the Slashdot moderation system. Haven't noticed any progress yet.

You know what'd be more useful, Google?

[93 Escort Wagon]

Let me - and everyone else - rate the search results themselves; and let us see how they've been rated!

I get really tired of highly-placed search results which don't contain any actual information. Some onerous sites are really good at gaming the results returned by Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and the rest. But being able to see, at a glance, that 50 people gave a search result only one out of five stars would let me know not to waste time clicking on that particular link.

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[rtb61]

Want proper ratings, than it needs to be a 10 x 10 system to give a score out of one hundred. a Score out of 10 for each of the most significant features of video content, often contradictory values perfect score, delete the review. When it comes to the reviewers, simply allow end users to block their reviews and that can do that by evaluating that reviewers ratings to their own, sufficient mismatch in ratings and simply ignore all their reviews, done and finished. They will not do this off course, just li

What Google needs to do...

[bjwest]

What Google needs to do is make it easy for me to default removing all Pinterest results without me having to add '-site:pintrest.com' to my search string. It's not as bad as it used to be, but it's still way too prevalent for my liking, especially in image searches.