[HN Gopher] Recommendations and Results Organization in Netflix ...
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Recommendations and Results Organization in Netflix Search
Author : infodocket
Score : 37 points
Date : 2021-06-01 15:11 UTC (1 days ago)
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| inshadows wrote:
| I read just the abstract and I hate it. Nowadays you cannot
| really use search functionality on sites to find what you
| actually want anymore.
| dividedbyzero wrote:
| Lots of bad recommendation systems out there, to be sure, but
| Netflix's strikes me as one of the better (best?)
| implementations. If I search for a particular title, it's
| usually at the top (or close to, with fuzzier search terms),
| whereas when they don't have what I'm looking for (happens a
| lot, their library is pretty small where I live) their
| recommendations are at least pretty similar to what I'm looking
| for. Compared to comparable solutions with dumb search, it's a
| much better experience.
|
| But I agree insofar as botched recommenders that you can't
| circumvent easily are the absolute worst UX.
| [deleted]
| jimbob45 wrote:
| I heavily agree. On both Netflix and Hulu, I frequently find
| exactly what I'm looking for. Even better, Hulu will
| sometimes tell me that they don't have the item I'm looking
| for. It's insane to me that they include items they _don't_
| have in their DB just to enhance the search experience.
| deckard1 wrote:
| > Hulu will sometimes tell me that they don't have the item
| I'm looking for
|
| Netflix does this too (or did? it's been awhile). It's one
| of those tiny little details that really makes a
| difference.
| selfhoster11 wrote:
| Not in my experience (on mobile app). It just alludes to
| that fact by suggesting shows that are very close to the
| thing you were searching for, but the thing that you did
| actually search for is conspicuously missing from the
| results list.
| JackGreyhat wrote:
| Exactly. Its like they're saying: We don't have what you
| want, but here's something that's close enough. Be happy.
| EForEndeavour wrote:
| Explicitly giving the user feedback about items currently
| missing from their catalog is ingenious. Whenever I search
| for something that's not on a given streaming platform, the
| slew of data-driven recommendations of other things that
| are similar yet _still absolutely not_ what I was looking
| for amplifies my disappointment. Just give it to me
| straight, CraveFlixPlus Prime Video Max!
| lumost wrote:
| There doesn't appear to be any details on the success of their
| implementation or how they implemented it. This paper effectively
| says "here are the challenges, we solved them".
| [deleted]
| shoto_io wrote:
| I really miss the stars on Netflix. Now I usually open up a
| browser and look up the movie before I start watching. So sad!
| pookeh wrote:
| I use Trim [1] for Chrome to add ratings in the netflix
| interface. It also dims recommendations that are below my
| specified stars. Works really well!
|
| [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trim-imdb-
| ratings-...
| shoto_io wrote:
| nice! Thanks for sharing!
| [deleted]
| extra88 wrote:
| I've always preferred the five-star scale over a simple thumbs-
| up, down. The stars never went away on the dvd.netflix.com
| interface (I still have a disc plan along with streaming). I
| think the red stars for movies/shows I haven't rated reflect
| Netflix's guess for how I'll rate them but further down there's
| small print that shows Neflix's guess numerically and the
| numeric average rating for all users.
| denimnerd42 wrote:
| I don't miss that. I'd rather watch the first 5 minutes of a
| movie and see if it's for me. If I see 3 stars I will
| automatically not want to watch it but I may enjoy such a movie
| or TV show.
| GordonS wrote:
| I don't have Nexflix, but I do have Amazon Prime (and an Amazon
| Fire HD stick), and I _love_ the fact that it shows ratings
| from both Prime users _and_ IMDB - it would be a major PITA to
| have to look up everything one-by-one on my phone!
|
| Off the top of my head, I think it shows IMDB ratings for shows
| from other services too (e.g. Disney+, BBC iPlayer).
| omega3 wrote:
| I find IMDB ratings are often over inflated, rotten tomatoes
| ratings are much better but not perfect.
| tyingq wrote:
| Of course, they don't allow you to filter and/or sort on
| those ratings. Argh.
| derivagral wrote:
| IMDB is owned by Amazon. I would assume that's why nobody
| else has something similar.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb
| [deleted]
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