Netflix Gives $1,000,000 Prize to Team of Seven

[JMcEntegart]

A team of seven researchers have won the $1 million prize through a contest run by Netflix.

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[Kaiser_25]

Good for them, they worked hard and made a new innovation i hope they spend it wisely.

 

[doomtomb]

This sounds incredibly subjective but hey, I'm glad they got the money.

 

[blasterth]

Netflix as made a good deal, payed seven researchers 4000 $ a month each for 3 years for a good result and payed 0$ the other uncounted researchers for a not as good result.

 

[gekko668]

Hehe, now the hard part is how to divide the money when you factor in the human greed into the equation.

 

[jellico]

I'll be interested to see what sorts of recommendations I get from Netflix now. My biggest "wish list" item for them, however, is that they would carry a lot more selections in their "Watch it Now" category.

 

[wifiwolf]

Nice work. I'd rather wait for them to sharpen some edges in another 30 days just for a tie-break, as possibly one of the teams probably was making some last minute checks before posting.

 

[bfstev]

bet the guy who was submittting for the other team regrets taking that bathroom break now.

 

[Major7up]

The losing team probably was busy making final tweaks trying to stretch every last second they could out out the deadline. Too bad they didn't start 30 minutes earlier that day!

 

[mi1ez]

hope they've come up with a system up to last.fm's standards for that money!