To Like or Not To Like
It had been a week or so when Yahoo! announced their latest web feature, Yahoo! Movies Recommends, but I haven’t got into it since this week. I put it on my things-to-do-if-there-is-nothing-left list and this is one on it. I logged in to my account and there it was, the beta feature link.
It was quite hard rating movies, not on the part of the-movie-sucked or the-movie-is-awesome ratings but on what movies to rate. At first, I had to search the movies that top my list and when it loads, I resumed on rating it from A+ to F. They also had a link that points you to a few movies you can rate in order for Yahoo! to base its recommendations. After about 30 movie searches, I saw that “Top Movies” link, and started on top movies of 2004. I opened all the movies on tabs; I was loading 40+ pages on a dialup connection. It nearly froze to death. After a few more movies, I started to see this:
The green one was from Garden State and the red one is from Win a Date With Tad Hamilton. LOL Yahoo! just had a new fan from that moment! I realized the only way to get more movies to rate was to surf on DSL, so I went out. And there I was, ?Open Link in New Tab?-crazy opening about 40+ tabs at once. I got through 2001 movies on the first 5 minutes (not counting 4 minutes from downloading Firefox).
I don’t know how they do it but it’s a great application. Haven’t got time to put lists and reviews, I wasn’t going to, but hey, if there is really nothing to do, why not! Want to have a website suggest you a movie you will like? I bought Garden State because of the site (read my review, see next entry). The feature is worth a try.