From an article just posted to this sub .
On Netflix’s limited participation While Netflix has offered an Android TV app since the platform debuted a year ago, Netflix content doesn’t feed into the Recommendations bar or appear in cross-app search results. Meanwhile, both Roku and the new Apple TV feature Netflix content in their searches. What gives?
“Without going into any more details, it’s something we’re working with them really, really closely on, both for search and for recommendations, and so it's something to keep an eye on,” Chang said.
Even without search and recommendations support, Prueter described Netflix as a good partner. He pointed out that Netflix was one of the first to support Google’s APIs for 5.1-channel audio pass-through, and he said the company generally isn’t unreasonable when it holds off on certain features. “I think whenever it comes to the user experience, they are obviously a little bit more careful leveraging specific platform capabilities if they can’t scale it across multiple platforms,” he said.
Ask them. Send an email to their customer support, rate the app low with reasoning being this.
This is 100% on Netflix. Have to put pressure on them to make it happen.