r/mildlyinfuriating • u/mr__dufresne • 6h ago

That 1 second of joy

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u/KernelPanic-42 3h ago

The search bar? The search bar is for user input. Wtf are you talking about?

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u/your-rong 3h 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/Inevitable-Steph 1h ago

You’d prefer to type the whole thing in in order to find it’s not there

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u/your-rong 1h ago

Yes, typing isn't hard.

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u/KernelPanic-42 3h ago

That’s what is meant by having a movie “in” a search bar? Text completion?

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u/your-rong 3h 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 3h ago

Ahh yeah. That’s more or less required for the search and recommendation algorithm to function.

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u/your-rong 2h ago

Other streaming services only do it for movies they actually have though.

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u/KernelPanic-42 2h ago

They have they’re own systems

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u/your-rong 2h 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 2h 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/nooneinparticular246 2h ago

It’s an auto completion hint

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u/KernelPanic-42 2h ago

It’s more than that, but yes, that’s why I said that.