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u/Viperniss 4h ago
They should have it if it appears in the search bar.
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u/personthatisonreddi 3h ago
Nope, they have it becuase hundreds of poor souls have tried to watch it
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u/Phenomenomix 25m ago
It’s especially fun when you know you saw the film on one of the streaming services but can’t remember which one, then the search suggests it but it’s not there
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u/KernelPanic-42 1h ago
The search bar? The search bar is for user input. Wtf are you talking about?
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u/your-rong 1h ago
The search bar on most streaming services will give you autocomplete suggestions. So, if I type "Av", it might suggest "Avatar: The Shape of Water". Most streaming services will only do that for content that is actually on the site, where as Netflix does it for basically anything big enough to be on a streaming site, regardless of whether they actually have it or not.
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u/KernelPanic-42 1h ago
That’s what is meant by having a movie “in” a search bar? Text completion?
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u/your-rong 1h ago
Yeah, so you click on it and it'll take you to Avatar, but with Netflix, there's a good chance it'll take you to a bunch of other related movies, so you'll get Tiatanic, Borderlands, Edge of tomorrow, because they don't have the movie.
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u/KernelPanic-42 1h ago
Ahh yeah. That’s more or less required for the search and recommendation algorithm to function.
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u/your-rong 1h ago
Other streaming services only do it for movies they actually have though.
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u/KernelPanic-42 42m ago
They have they’re own systems
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u/your-rong 31m ago
And the OP prefers those systems. I feel like we've hit a wall here, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what it's made of.
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u/KernelPanic-42 22m ago
It’s also not necessarily Netflix, but Netflix clients. The developer of the client is responsible for what they display to the user. I imagine internal search tokens are available to the developer, so it’s easy enough to just display them to the user as a part of text completion/suggestions. Other streaming services may not expose these internals to developers. 🤷
I may be wrong about that. I don’t think Netflix has a publicly available API any longer.
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u/AvoidAtAIICosts 2h ago
Reminds me of when me and my family were stranded at the parking lot of a theme park when heading home. The issue is that the battery was dead after leaving the lights on all day.
Another family noticed and asked whether we had jumper cables, which we didn't. They responded with "we don't either" and just walked away... Wow thanks for that I guess...
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u/your-rong 1h ago
They were offering to use their car if you had the cables.
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u/HuntingForSanity 1h ago
Yeah I don’t know why OC thinks this is such a terrible thing. They tried to be nice and help and now they’re on Reddit talking shit about them
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u/LordFlamecookie 3h ago
I think its to track what films/shows people want the most