The relevance of Netflix's suggestions is NOT NOT NOT what this article is 
about, Bhairitu. If you actually have a look at it, I'm pretty sure you'll be 
intrigued.
 

 Thanks.  I looked at some articles on this a couple weeks ago.  However their 
suggestions are about as relevant as what Google or Amazon recommends because 
of the way I use Netflix.  For instance I only watched "Atlas Shrugged II" for 
reference and gave it only 1 star (you can't give no stars) so they post a 
message after such a rating that they have no recommendations based on that 
rating.  The movie itself is quite laughable.
 
 On 02/05/2014 09:37 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:
 
   How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood To understand how people look for 
movies, the video service created 76,897 micro-genres. We took the genre 
descriptions, broke them down to their key words, … and built our own new-genre 
generator.
 

 This article from The Atlantic by Alexis Madrigal is a  whole lot more 
fascinating than it sounds. Especially the Perry Mason Ghost in the Machine, 
which emerges toward the end. The "new-genre generator" is the least of it.

 


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