Comments on: Jinni – New Movie Recommendation Service Any Good? http://thefilmtalk.com/blog/jinni-new-movie-recommendation-service-any-good/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:22:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Markhttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/jinni-new-movie-recommendation-service-any-good/#comment-1384 Mark Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:46:25 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=380#comment-1384 <a href="http://www.movies.monigo.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.movies.monigo.com</a> is pretty great, and working! alternatively, too. http://www.movies.monigo.com is pretty great, and working! alternatively, too.

]]> By: Markhttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/jinni-new-movie-recommendation-service-any-good/#comment-1383 Mark Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:46:25 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=380#comment-1383 <a href="http://www.movies.monigo.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.movies.monigo.com</a> is pretty great, and working! alternatively, too. http://www.movies.monigo.com is pretty great, and working! alternatively, too.

]]> By: jettloehttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/jinni-new-movie-recommendation-service-any-good/#comment-1382 jettloe Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:44:37 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=380#comment-1382 Thanks for your response Phoebe_b - I appreciate that it's early days for the service :)<br><br>i'll keep trying jinni and look forward to finding some gems i've never seen! :) Thanks for your response Phoebe_b – I appreciate that it's early days for the service :)

i'll keep trying jinni and look forward to finding some gems i've never seen! :)

]]> By: Phoebe_bhttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/jinni-new-movie-recommendation-service-any-good/#comment-1381 Phoebe_b Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:38:46 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=380#comment-1381 Thanks for your thoughtful analysis of Jinni. We really welcome criticism to help us improve during our beta. Just a few responses to your observations:<br><br>As you saw “robots run amok” brings no results, though “robot gone awry” does (as does a search for movies like I, Robot, for example). The same applies to “love is for suckers” – e.g. “love is for losers” does bring results. We’re working hard to improve Jinni’s vocabulary so that users can type the phrases they think of into the search box and get results.<br><br>Critically acclaimed – we gather this data from several sources. If Revenge of the Sith is more popular than Stalker (and it is) and almost as acclaimed, it might appear first when searching for "Sci-fi critically acclaimed." (Revenge of the Sith gets 79% fresh out of 250 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, more than Return of the Jedi). Stalker isn’t yet in our catalog – you’ll see it on Jinni shortly.<br><br>In the last image, you’ve come across an error in our indexing of TV shows as critically acclaimed. The results for movies only are correct. Obviously we’re working on fixing this as quickly as possible.<br><br>I hope you’ll continue to play with Jinni and see quite rapid improvement over time. Feedback is always welcome and appreciated! Thanks for your thoughtful analysis of Jinni. We really welcome criticism to help us improve during our beta. Just a few responses to your observations:

As you saw “robots run amok” brings no results, though “robot gone awry” does (as does a search for movies like I, Robot, for example). The same applies to “love is for suckers” – e.g. “love is for losers” does bring results. We’re working hard to improve Jinni’s vocabulary so that users can type the phrases they think of into the search box and get results.

Critically acclaimed – we gather this data from several sources. If Revenge of the Sith is more popular than Stalker (and it is) and almost as acclaimed, it might appear first when searching for “Sci-fi critically acclaimed.” (Revenge of the Sith gets 79% fresh out of 250 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, more than Return of the Jedi). Stalker isn’t yet in our catalog – you’ll see it on Jinni shortly.

In the last image, you’ve come across an error in our indexing of TV shows as critically acclaimed. The results for movies only are correct. Obviously we’re working on fixing this as quickly as possible.

I hope you’ll continue to play with Jinni and see quite rapid improvement over time. Feedback is always welcome and appreciated!

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