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Everyone loves to binge watch Netflix, but a now job posting for the streaming giant means you could actually get paid to watch!
Netflix has changed the way we watch TV forever. Instead of watching TV or movie series one installment at a time, many people have begun watching in marathon binge sessions. The binge watching is actually so prevalent that Netflix accounts for almost 1/3 of total internet traffic.
Despite this vast abundance of available streaming media, people don’t always know what to watch. Netflix works hard to index all its content by relevant details like cast and crew or genre and some more adventurous viewers will even go the (sometimes risky) route of Netflix Roulette, but Netflix doesn’t have the ability to index and tag its videos in the same way as search engines like Google. There are no robot crawlers that can watch and index movie characteristics in the same way they crawl images and text on the internet.
In what may actually seem like a dream job to some, Netflix actually employs people to watch Netflix all day and manually input tags. Otherwise, how would Netflix recommend you watch “Witty Dysfunctional-Family TV Animated Comedies Featuring a Strong Female Lead”?
This is not an imaginary position staffed by Oompa Loompas, but an actual job that Netflix actually pays people to perform. It may not be quite as cut and dry as getting paid to watch TV, although you would definitely be free to tell people that’s what you do!
The positions are titled “Taggers,” and the task is pretty self explanitory and includes perks such as free Netflix and flexible hours, but I would imagine it has an unfortunate side effect of making you despise TV. Nevertheless, there are far worse job out there than “paid Netflix watcher.”
Netflix is currently hiring for the position in the UK/Ireland. If you think this is your dream job, but you don’t reside in the proper country, just keep your eyes on the Netflix jobs page for any future openings. There’s always new content coming out, so they aren’t likely to ever lose demand for new Taggers.
Netflix has long been judging your ISP's streaming quality, but you've had to dig around blog posts and other less accessible pages to get the low-down on just which networks reign supreme. Its new, dedicated ISP Speed Index page is much more straightforward: stop by and you'll always have a quick glimpse of which internet providers are the most Netflix-friendly across key countries, with more detailed breakdowns for individual nations. Not that there's been an upheaval in the pecking order, at least if you're an American. Google Fiber was once again the clear US speed leader in February, while DSL and Clearwire's WiMAX trailed the pack. The site mostly provides a handy point of reference for ISP shopping, even if it suggests that a cross-country (or cross-planet) move might be in order.
We know almosttoo well how smartphones perform in US market share; what we don't usually see is how happy customers are once the shrink wrap's off. Going by a newly-expanded American Customer Satisfaction Index, it's the iPhone that most scratches the itch at a score of 83. Despite having just been added, Apple was noticeably ahead of a three-way tie between HTC, LG and Nokia at 75. You might not want to look if you're a freshly-minted RIM executive: the BlackBerry made its freshman debut on the charts at the bottom, or 69. Big carriers have their own reasons to wince, too, knowing that smaller carriers like US Cellular and TracFone scored higher on the happiness meter than incumbents hiking service fees. While there's definitely some wiggle room for your own experience to have been better or worse, if you were an iPhone owner on a regional carrier in the past few months, you were statistically the most likely to be on Cloud Nine.
After well over a year of testing, Google is ready to shift some of its search engine foundations to focus on mobile. The company has started the rollout for "mobile-first" search indexing, which uses the phone-optimized versions of pages for indexi...
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