Google Movie Search for mobile updated with red carpet treatment 13

If there’s one thing to like about online services like Google, it’s that they can update their stuff whenever they want. Google has a penchant for making small but useful updates to their mobile search portal, and yesterday your searches for movies just got better. While we do have Flixster and Fandango available now on our webOS phones, there’s something to be said for the innate elegant simplicity of doing the Google.

Google recently updated their movie search options for mobile search, at least for those lucky enough to be using phones with WebKit browser (i.e. iPhone, Android, and webOS). A search for “Movies” on Google will yield a link to a “More movies” option that opens the new movie search page. From here Google throws together a map of nearby theaters and movies playing on their silvery screens (browsers with geolocation abilities, i.e. Safari on the iPhone, actually use GPS to locate nearby theaters).

In addition to just offering your local playtimes, clicking on a movie will bring up a page with movie summary, map to nearby theaters, more showtimes, cast info, and even images from the film. Throughout all these pages is a “Play trailer” link that pulls the trailer straight from YouTube so that you can watch it right on your phone. The only thing that’s missing? A way to buy tickets for your selected flick, but that’s probably because Google hasn’t yet bought somebody that does that.