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Use Jinni to find your next favorite movie

By , About.com Guide   August 31, 2010

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Need a little help finding something really good to watch? You'll want to check out Jinni,a media search engine that refines its search results by your personal taste, recommendations, and selected genres.

You can use Jinni to find movies to buy, rent offline, watch online, or link to your Netflix account and play with your DVD queue. Here's how Jinni works:

  • Figure out what you are in the mood for. You can search by plot, mood, title, favorite actors, genre, time/period, place, audience, and awards.
  • Sort your results. My search for actress Julia Roberts came back with the following image:

    jinni

    The default filter is largest images equal most relevant results; you can also filter this by Date, Length, or Rating in the drop-down menu right above the images.

  • Where do you want to watch your results? This is where Jinni gets super-cool. You can tell Jinni you'd like to see the default "All" results, or, you can section them off by Movies, TV, Shorts, or Free Online. For example, here's what I found for the keyword "love" in Free Online:

    jinni

    Give Jinni a try and tell us what you think; I'm loving the fact that I can search many different sites online at once for movies or videos that I probably wouldn't have found otherwise, due to Jinni's unique search structure.

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