tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250324745932561231.post1597067468449391494..comments2023-11-19T10:38:36.512-06:00Comments on Film Walrus Reviews: "The Water Horse" Buys Controlling Share of NetflixFilmWalrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14822833888119348361noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250324745932561231.post-32327171960448565012009-01-07T16:12:00.000-06:002009-01-07T16:12:00.000-06:00Yes! And I thought I was going mad..Yes! And I thought I was going mad..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250324745932561231.post-39396193640063509212008-10-28T16:13:00.000-05:002008-10-28T16:13:00.000-05:00Good for people to know.Good for people to know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250324745932561231.post-282638786425462392008-07-20T16:06:00.000-05:002008-07-20T16:06:00.000-05:00Yup, more than two months later and this problem s...Yup, more than two months later and this problem still persists. Looks like Netflix doesn't consider this a bug...FilmWalrushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14822833888119348361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250324745932561231.post-7869320777090565132008-07-20T13:30:00.000-05:002008-07-20T13:30:00.000-05:00I'm totally getting The Water Horse in almost ever...I'm totally getting <I>The Water Horse</I> in almost every search.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250324745932561231.post-86430113462986825262008-05-22T11:47:00.000-05:002008-05-22T11:47:00.000-05:00I think I've figured out what is going on, after n...I think I've figured out what is going on, after noticing a few more bizarre Water Horse appearances.<BR/><BR/>I searched for "Night of the Hunter" and Water Horse came up 3rd. The first result informed me that the proper title of the film is actually "<I>The</I> Night of the Hunter." The interesting thing is that when I searched using the second string, with the additional "the," Water Horse came up second.<BR/><BR/>Seeing that result, and comparing to your list, it's pretty clear what is happening: Netflix is weighting incidental and largely meaningless connecting words such as "of" and "the" as highly or higher than the other words in the title, and it has a secondary set of ranking criteria which clearly favors recent and/or popular movies.<BR/><BR/>Since there are thousands of movie titles containing "the" and "of," searching for practically any movie title longer than a word or two will capture every other movie title containing "the" and/or "of." This is why searching for "Night of the Hunter" returns over 24,000 hits.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure whether to attribute this phenomenon to extreme naivete on the part of Netflix's programmers, or whether this is a more sinister plot to shoehorn recent movies into practically every search result (without the idiotic weighting of connecting words, sorting by popularity and recentness seems like a pretty legitimate ranking method). Either way, I agree with you--it certainly decreases the usefulness of the search engine: someone who mistakenly searches for The Night of the Hunter when they actually want to see Night Hunter (bear with me here) will probably give up in frustration before realizing their mistake.Derekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13470560568546288686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250324745932561231.post-37908358699578373472008-05-11T20:32:00.000-05:002008-05-11T20:32:00.000-05:00re: the godfather.Maybe a water horses head?re: the godfather.Maybe a water horses head?Nigel Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928346913206094978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250324745932561231.post-31501810007482884282008-05-11T01:53:00.000-05:002008-05-11T01:53:00.000-05:00Oh... Oh wow...Especially that Chronicles of Narni...Oh... Oh wow...<BR/><BR/>Especially that Chronicles of Narnia thing.Mad Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716883645607032782noreply@blogger.com