Netflix is one of my favorite examples of a search service that would be infinitely improved with a really low-tech change that will probably never get implemen

Netflix is one of my favorite examples of a search service that would be infinitely improved with a really low-tech change that will probably never get implemented because it doesn't give the data scientists something to talk about over beer: Filtering So often, what I'm looking for is something like, "G rated content, not by Disney, less than 30 minutes long", or "Documentaries that I haven't watched yet, with an audio track in French, that are available for offline viewing". With a search space the size of Netflix's library. There's no need for a search string there. Nor is there a need for anything fancy like recommendation or expanding to items that are similar to direct hits on the search string, because, these days, a basic filter like that will only yield a page or two of results, anyway. And would be really easy to for them to implement, because they already have their library tagged with pretty much anything I could think to filter on, anyway, so they can use it as features for the fancy-schmancy recommendation engine. More generally, I stopped having a need for a juiced up search engine and recommendation system in Netflix the exact moment I stopped owning a DVD player.