If you search for "wet" on Netflix, you get two immediate hits: one for "Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later" and another for a series called "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp". It also returns many other, seemingly wildly unrelated titles. Maybe because the standard poster for "Wild Things" shows the ladies in a pool, even though the poster in the search results does not? One of the results is for a German movie whose title has the word "Wetten" in it, which actually means "to bet." This is not great but at least the first two hits are sensible. <img src="{att_link}search_22wet_22_on_netflix.webp" href="{att_link}search_22wet_22_on_netflix.webp" align="none" caption="Search 'wet' on Netflix" scale="50%"> When you click the first link in the list of suggestions---to refine the search to the movie "Wet Hot American Summer"---Netflix has an aneurysm and completely forgets everything it knew in the prior search. <img src="{att_link}search_22wet_hot_american_summer_22_on_netflix.webp" href="{att_link}search_22wet_hot_american_summer_22_on_netflix.webp" align="none" caption="Search 'Wet Hot American Summer' on Netflix" scale="50%"> Some of these are comedies perhaps similar to the movie but <i>how are they more similar than the movie's sequel and spin-off TV series?</i> It makes me wonder whether we're ever going to have a usable search index as a standard feature in products that are decades old and which are maintained by thousands of developers for companies worth billions of dollars.