Google shuts down Google.com/movies

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I'm going to miss the interface for Google Showtimes.

http://web.archive.org/web/20161023155016/http://www.google....

Note the logically arranged sidebar, the simple HTML, and the links to IMDb and Youtube instead of images or embedded videos.

Contrast this with Fandango, IMDb, and Yahoo Movies:

http://www.fandango.com/

http://www.imdb.com/showtimes/

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/showtimes/

Does anyone know of a movies showtimes site with a decent signal-to-noise ratio?

This has been my go-to page for movie information for the longest time. Yet again, Google is training us not to trust that any of their services will be available -- this one seemed to be shutdown without any notice whatsoever.

I know it's a free service, and that Google is under no obligation to me. For these reasons, I've never taken them up on their "free" storage, G+, or any other up and coming services.

This was a very useful service, and I'll miss it a lot.

Had never heard of it before now which is probably a hint as to why it was shut down.

Same here. I feel like a lot of Google's products aren't well advertised, and canceled without warning. They also tend to be better than most alternatives.

ditto.

For a while google displayed real estate for sale on google maps. I can't quite put my finger on exactly why (maybe that it was google maps), but it was much more useful than the standard real-estate sites. Was sad to see it go.

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