Jinni was a website-based search engine and recommendation engine for movies, TV shows and short films. The service was powered by the Entertainment Genome, an approach to indexing titles based on attributes like mood, tone, plot, and structure. As of 2015, it was no longer available to the public, but is reportedly available via API and business-to-business licensing, where it reportedly impacts businesses like Comcast's Xfinity product, as well as other businesses using "smart" entertainment search. Description The Jinni service included semantic search, a meaning-based approach to interpreting queries by identifying concepts within the content, rather than keywords. The search engine served as a video discovery tool focusing on user tastes, including mood, plot, and other parameters, with options to browse and refine using additional terms, e.g., “action in a future dystopia” or “Beautiful Girls, funny.” Jinni's semantic discovery engine was powered by that company's Entertainment Genome™, which reportedly contained thousands of "genes" automatically assigned to describe mood, style, plot and setting for every released movie or television program. These elements were then matched to subscribers' personal tastes according to their viewing history in order to provide a personalized discovery experience. Jinni also provided recommendations, according to a given user's favorites and ratings, of movies and TV shows. Stated another way, the recommendations were based on available content and on the user's taste profile. As well as discovery, the Jinni website included internet television, the online streaming of film and television, mostly for titles available in the United States. Jinni also linked to other sites that rented or sold DVDs or offered downloads or streaming for a fee, such as Netflix, Amazon and Blockbuster. Jinni's technology involved a taxonomy created by film professionals, with new titles indexed via natural language processing and machine learning methods to automatically analyze reviews and metadata. Jinni's products included the website and APIs for TV operators and internet content providers. Jinni's partners included SeaChange, NDS, and OpenTV. As of 2015, the business-to-business supply of its tools for use in "target[ing], deliver[ing], and measur[ing]... digital advertising efforts", with its entertainment audience-targeting solution addressed to movie studios, TV networks and "over-the-top" video providers. History In March 2009, the Jinni website integrated the Netflix developer API. As a consequence, people could search the Netflix catalog, and "Instant Watch" catalog from Jinni, and add to their Netflix queues or begin streaming. In May 2010, Google announced a strategic alliance