Thanks to Robert Davis at Errata who pointed to this new feature at Google co-op, I've created my own selection of URLs (170 sites exclusively with film criticism material so far [EDIT June 2008: 262]) to look up cinema-specific topics on Google, which helps to browse the internet archive of film bloggers and online publications with only relevant results.
The problem with Google, is that the search engine is based on "word spotting" instead of "topic related filtering". Google returns all pages where the words required are found, but it doesn't mean the acception of the word matches your query, or that the words are in the same sentence or in the same article. Sometimes funny word strings lead to your page, because the text in the Google cache is scanned indifferently when several posts are showing on the front page. That's one of the reasons why I took out the post content from my index page on this blog, so that the text of each post is archived on its own specific page. And it also keep my post and the comments on the same page. I guess the words used in the links of the sidebar also alter the scanning of the blog frontpage by search engines.
So now Google adds some intelligence in their search results by asking users to qualify the pages, and restrict searches on a predefined thematic list, exclusive, or weighted among an all web search. Although there is no RSS feed on Google co-op, to keep track live on a feed aggregator of your favorite recurrent query... which is very useful.
I couldn't embed the search button within this post, so the results are hosted over at Google.
Let me know if the search results prove to be more fruitful and pertinent than usual. I will tweak the settings, add/remove URLs, as I figure how to improve the relevance and richness of cinema queries.
Try :
- Errata: Search selected sites on Google Co-op
- Online Film Search Engine Google Co-op compilation from 52 video-providers online [EDIT June 2008: 66] (for short films, videos, commercials, trailers...)
- Google Blog Search (film criticism) RSS feed
- Technorati Blog Search (film criticism) RSS feed
- Andy horbal's Film Blogs, Etc. on Google Co-op
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Added: Andy Horbal's own Google Coop Custom Search Engine, Film Blogs, Etc.
"This search engine includes English-language film blogs, websites, and online magazines and journals. It focuses on full-text publications not indexed in the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals or Film Literature Index Online databases or included on the Metacritic movie review website."
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