A best streaming site search engine is a website or app that lets you enter a movie or TV show title and tells you every service where it’s available to stream. It can also help you keep track of titles you’ve been meaning to watch.
Vespa’s streaming mode supports this use case by sharding data groups over multiple content nodes. It also supports a wider range of matching settings at query time, including prefix and substring matching.
JustWatch
JustWatch is an online and smartphone app that collates the title listings from a number of different streaming services. This centralised system makes it incredibly easy to find the movie or television show you’re looking for, without having to hunt down each service individually. It also works across countries, allowing users to access titles on a wide variety of streaming services including Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, Amazon Prime Video, Apple iTunes, CW, Vudu and Yahoo.
Essentially, you search for a film or TV show and JustWatch will show you where it is available to stream or purchase for free with ads, or for rent or buy on a paid platform. The website and mobile apps are free to use, although a premium option is also available with additional features such as creating curated collections or sharing Watchlists between devices. You can also track movies and TV shows you want to see with notifications. This feature is great when you’re trying to stay up to date with new episodes.
Reelgood
As the number of streaming services expanded, so did the need for a way to find and track TV shows and movies across them. The startup Reelgood launched a web service to do just that, and recently released iOS and Apple TV apps. Its team includes the development team from the popular torrenting app Popcorn Time, as well as the company’s founder and former Facebook PM, David Sanderson.
Reelgood aggregates content from a variety of sources and presents it in a single, easy-to-use interface. Shows and movies are broken down into high-level categories, such as drama or documentary, while individual titles include a description, rating from Rotten Tomatoes, and a summary of cast and crew members.
Users can search for specific titles and view their availability on multiple services, including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, HBO (HBO GO and HBO NOW), and more. The platform also enables users to easily mark episodes as “watched” or “seen,” and Reelgood will remember their status if they log in to the site.
Google, which processes 70 percent of worldwide online search requests, works by analyzing words in a query to understand what you are looking for and return results that match. Its AI system, MUM (Multitask Unified Model), understands multiple languages and can identify images quickly and accurately. MUM was particularly useful during the COVID-19 pandemic, when different vaccine names were widely used.
Brin and Page conceived of the Google search engine in 1995 while visiting Stanford University for graduate school. They used inexpensive hardware and their own credit cards to run early production servers before Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to bring the company into incorporated form in 1998.
From the beginning, the company was unconventional — from its first logo to its headquarters (affectionately called “The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California, to its infamous motto, “Don’t be evil.” Today, Google LLC is part of Alphabet Inc., the holding company for its various divisions focusing on artificial intelligence, cloud computing and e-commerce.
On TV Tonight
Originally launched in 2014, On TV Tonight is a video streaming listings service and media company. Their TV aggregator platform collates content from multiple broadcast channels, cable television channels and video streaming services, enabling users to view all the available options on a single interface. The app is free to download and is available for users in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, France and Italy. Users can personalize their guides to hide channels that are unavailable to them and to choose favorite channels to highlight on their personalized schedules. They can also quickly watch their favorite shows and movies via a one-tap link to the best service (subscription, BVOD or buy) for that title based on price and popularity.
