How Google Ranks Videos 69
Nirnimesh writes "Google reveals their ranking system for videos on the official blog. The system lists videos according to their country-wide popularity. From the article: 'We use algorithms to identify videos that are suddenly becoming popular, and then rank them based on how popular they are -- and how suddenly they became popular. We've been using this list internally, and now it's ready to share with you, so check it out. Right now this feature highlights videos from close to 40 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, and New Zealand, to name a few.'"
Barbie Girl (Score:4, Insightful)
seeing that currently the most popular video on Google is of a chubby nerdy tranvestite playbacking a song of Aqua
"Algorithms and ranking system" (Score:3, Insightful)
Seriously, this isn't all that cool (one might even say lame) even for news from Google. Even a simple (video_rank = num_video_views where num_video_views >threshold) would work from what I read from the description.
But then, they just posted it on their blog, it's the "blogosphere" that blows/hypes it out of proportion.
I'm flabergasted (Score:5, Insightful)
Every single little thing Google does, no matter how trivial, is reported to take down Microsoft and take over the world.
But COME ON, is this really worth an article on Slashdot:
[we] rank them based on how popular they are
Shit they better patent it before someone else figures it out!
It's only literally every site with plenty of items that can be sorted based on popularity.
Re:How hard could it possibly be to... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I'm flabergasted (Score:5, Insightful)
I find this especially ironic. People care about Paris Hilton's car crash not because car crashes are particularly rare, but because Paris Hilton is really popular.
And you're reasoning that Google ordering items by popularity is very important, not because ordering by popularity is particularly rare, but because Google is really popular.
But you can always find comfort in the idea that we're "the geeks" and "the rest of the world" is just plain dumb and undeserving attention.
This doesnt work (Score:2, Insightful)
There should be some form of rating on the videos as well so the people subjected to them can say if they suck or not, cause most of them suck.