Comment Re:How About A Working "Search" (Score 1) 37
This is because when Google first rolled out search of Google Videos and then YouTube (shortly post acquisition) the search keywords and phrases where only the title and keywords / phrases that Google search experts added by hand for top viewed and educational videos.
Since then, I understand that speech to text, author tags, and discussion comments all factor into the keyword pool. The pool is polluted as well as an active target for SEO schmucks. They also need to get rid of the thumbs up / down moderation and go to at least a 5 point scale. I wish more in meta-moderation was being done to identify "good evaluators" and let their scores and tagging carry stronger weight or be a sort criteria of it's own. The only usable system like this so far seems to be Rotten Tomatoes.
Another issue is the fact that view counts are all that matter for ad revenue to uploaders. This has left subject areas with few people producing video content as easy pickings for low production value tripe. About the only areas with enough competition and/or ethics to produce good production value seem to be gaming and hardware reviews and science education.
Since then, I understand that speech to text, author tags, and discussion comments all factor into the keyword pool. The pool is polluted as well as an active target for SEO schmucks. They also need to get rid of the thumbs up / down moderation and go to at least a 5 point scale. I wish more in meta-moderation was being done to identify "good evaluators" and let their scores and tagging carry stronger weight or be a sort criteria of it's own. The only usable system like this so far seems to be Rotten Tomatoes.
Another issue is the fact that view counts are all that matter for ad revenue to uploaders. This has left subject areas with few people producing video content as easy pickings for low production value tripe. About the only areas with enough competition and/or ethics to produce good production value seem to be gaming and hardware reviews and science education.