IMDb has a new toy, MoKa, the Movie Keywords Analyzer. tag-surf or search and discover movies related by keywords. I had fun trying to weave down obscure pathways. For instance, did you know there are at least two movies that match all the keywords "swimming-pool", "murder", "blood", "teen" and "drilling-machine"? Or, what about "czechploitation", "women's prison" and "sequel"? There are at least three matches.

They even suggest a couple games like "What's the longest string of keywords that leads to a single title?" (I'll bet the title is porn). Tag-surfing is interesting too - here's the Letter "M", with over 2,000 entries alone.

I also like the continuance of the trend toward simplicity in URL definitions - just pile the keywords on the end of the URL, like this: http://www.imdb.com/keyword/ghost/cat/hospital/.

MoKa is a lot like (and related to) Amazon.com's Statistically Improbable Phrases, Concordance and Text Stats for books. (IMDb is owned by Amazon, so it's not surprising).

(I've also been told by a little bird that IMDb is looking for a couple good perl hackers/general programmers in Seattle and Bristol, UK)

 

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