From a user's perspective, the suggestions have gotten much better over the last two years.
What I think Netflix needs to focus on now is its search. It really is horrid, especially when one considers that it has such a small corpus to index. For instance, a search for "biography scientist" has as its first result "Biography: Harry Potter Kids". On page 3 you get a result about "Biography: Earth" which is somewhat related, and almost to page four you get "Weird Science." There are plenty of biographical videos on Einstein, Netwon, Galileo but one just can't find them.
What I think Netflix needs to focus on now is its search. It really is horrid, especially when one considers that it has such a small corpus to index. For instance, a search for "biography scientist" has as its first result "Biography: Harry Potter Kids". On page 3 you get a result about "Biography: Earth" which is somewhat related, and almost to page four you get "Weird Science." There are plenty of biographical videos on Einstein, Netwon, Galileo but one just can't find them.