I discovered this nifty Google trick today:
Type the name of a music artist or band into Google, followed by the word “album” or “albums.” Google then gives you a list of all their albums, in a line at the top of the page, with the name and year of each album. You can then choose to put the albums in order of popularity, newest-to-oldest, or oldest-to-newest.
Maybe this little trick has been around for a while, and I only discovered it now. Has anyone else known about this?
I think it’s fairly new…search for, say, “Bruce Willis movies” or “Stephen King books” or even “New York restaurants” and you’ll see something similar.
It doesn’t always work perfectly. I did a search for “Robert Gleason.” The text on the right was about the Chairman of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania. The photo right above it (e.g. not the “Images for…” part) was of the murderer who was executed last year. They fixed it soon after.
IIRC new-ish, but I can’t say when.
I’ve been seeing this bar for a while this year. Still a lot of bugs in it. Search for, say, Crosby Stills & Nash albums you get the normal page, with the album of that name displayed on the sidebar. But search for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young albums and you get the bar. And really - the 1991 compilation album Carry On is more popular than their first and defining album? If you just search by album title, the first gets ten times as many hits. And did you notice that the bar erases the line that tells you how many hits the search received? That’s often useful information.
If you type “[Movie Name] Running Time” you get, as you would expect, the running time of the movie.
I told a friend that and he said “What else would you expect” but until I showed him he didn’t understand that I didn’t mean that it would just come up in the search results, it’s something they built in. It’s a nice feature, but as people are saying about the album thing, it as some bugs.
There is usually a link nearby to report a mislabelled image or vice-versa.
Cool. Anyone know if those are IMDB’s figures or what? I checked a few and it seemed so.
Where’s the fun in that?
Or you could just go to allmusic and get the list plus rankings, reviews, links to songs, etc.
I see this whenever I tack on the word “discography” after the name of the artist/band. Usually I still want the Wikipedia page, but it’s a handy little reference.
Hm, it seems to only work for well-known musicians/groups. I tried it with Moxy Fruvous and it didn’t work.
Another cool Google thing I just found out about. For New Years, Google looked at the pictures and movies on my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S4) and made a 2013 year in review movie!
I’m sure it was done without directorial input of an artist, but it is impressive. It seemed to pick out pics that were important/meaningful. When I showed my gf the movie she cried!!!
Only downside is it uses movie.mV4 (IIRC), some apparently proprietary system so that I can’t do anything other than view it.
You can ask Siri the same thing. It’s surprisingly handy.
I tried it on my iPod Touch for Happy Rhodes and it worked, though 4 of her 11 albums didn’t show the album artwork. Moxy Fruvous is a hell of a lot more famous than Happy. Very odd.