Netflix $1 Million Offer

American Voices • old internet • movies • business • ISSUE 42•40 • Oct 5, 2006

Netflix is currently offering $1 million to anyone who can improve its personal movie recommendations system. What do you think?

“I thought Jurassic Park was pretty good. Did I win?”
George Muybridge –
Pest Control
“I think instead they should take that million and make a movie that everybody likes, with Billy Crystal and a really cute puppy and lots of violence. Or mermaids. One or the other.”
Warren Edison –
Hammock Maker
“This is just like the famous MacArthur Genius Grant, except, the MacArthur Genius Grant doesn’t benefit mankind in any way.”
Esther Melies –
Bicycle Messenger

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