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.'"
No pigeons? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No pigeons? (Score:1)
Re:No pigeons? (Score:3, Interesting)
That's what makes this so special. They actually had to sit down and make an algorithm.
Re:No pigeons? (Score:1)
I mean come on... IT ISN'T NEWS!
Re:No pigeons? (Score:1)
<option value="usa">United States</option>
<option value="ven">Venezuela</option>
<option selected value="vnm">Viet Nam</option>
Re:No pigeons? (Score:3, Funny)
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How hard could it possibly be to... (Score:1)
Re:How hard could it possibly be to... (Score:5, Insightful)
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The why is "The MAC Gamer" [google.com] in 4th place? Because Google does not assess the content of the video. If I re-upload "an old fad that got 2 billion downloads over the years", Google does not know that it's old and if a lot of people see it, Google thinks that it's some hot new video.
Re:How hard could it possibly be to... (Score:2)
Re:Same old, same old... (Score:2)
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Pagerank has some pretty good information publically available:
Pagerank Explained [iprcom.com]
That at least covers a big chunk of what Google does.
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
Re:Barbie Girl (Score:1, Funny)
Chubby nerdy tranvestites ARE the most popular thing on the internet.
Hands down.
Followed with Songs by Aqua at a distant second.
OMG PONIES!!!!111 (Score:1)
Re:OMG PONIES!!!!111 (Score:1)
Why else do you think all the best strippers are Czechs?
Re:Barbie Girl (Score:2)
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"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.
Re:"Algorithms and ranking system" (Score:3, Informative)
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because there are a lot of people who act like that the 'top 100' lists usually become the stagnant tripe that a handful
I wonder how accurate this is. (Score:5, Interesting)
For example google claims that they do not return urls that contain '&id=' but that is clearly not the case. (Joomla and Mambo sites without seo enabled would have substantially fewer pages returned than they do if this was the case.)
I have come to feel that I can trust google about like I can trust my own contries military. (after independent verifiaction, and I need some reason to believe second source is not compromised.) But there are gems in the statements so I read them and after I am done reading I have more questions than before.
This looks like a small glimps into one component of pagerank. But the article is pretty light on substance.
Nothing like destroying an early beta (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Nothing like destroying an early beta (Score:2)
Hmmm (Score:2, Interesting)
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:I'm flabergasted (Score:3, Funny)
We are geeks. We have seen Google come from nothing to the best piece of real estate on the web. Google has changed our vocabulary. A new verb is now in it, called "google". Kinda like the "slashdot effect" and others.
I mean, check out what is "news" to the rest of the world -- http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=paris+h ilton&btnG=Search+News [google.com]
A dumb blond wrecking her car...
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.
Re:I'm flabergasted (Score:2)
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KFG
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Maybe no since I, and most of us here did too.
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Its not ironic. All popular people are popular simply because they are popular.
Re:I'm flabergasted (Score:2)
This is not the thing I'm saying is ironic. Read the whole post.
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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.
1- Like rain on a wedding day.
2- For crying out loud, WHY is google popular VS why is the dumb blonde popular? THAT is the freaking difference.
Google is popular because it w
Re:I'm flabergasted (Score:2)
But why? I hate to say it, but I almost understand the teens better than I do my fellow geeks.
Is this how Digg works? (Score:2)
I realize it may be blasphemy to discuss digg on /. but what the hell- it's sat afternoon and I'm already 25% drunk.
Isn't this is exactly how Digg assigns stories to the home page? Not based on number of diggs, but rather, how quickly an item was dugg.
Being a member of both sites.... (Score:2)
Re:Being a member of both sites.... (Score:2)
I use both sites too (same sn), and I fear you may be mistaken.
Look at digg [digg.com] right now: story #1 has 112 diggs, story #10 has 486 diggs. It must be using something else to rank. I have heard other diggers claim it was based on time, but I haven't actually seen anything to confirm this anywhere.
Re: submission. Don't let it bite yer ass. I'm 0 for 2 myself, and both stories have ended up on here anyway (just with a *ahem* better *idontthinkso* summary).
Ok, ok...no more "grousing". ;-)
Re:Being a member of both sites.... (Score:2)
I've never been so embarrassed in my life. (Score:3, Funny)
Crazy Frog.
Dozens and dozens of crappy variations of a done-to-death meme.
Kill me now, and get it over with.
Re:I've never been so embarrassed in my life. (Score:2, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new Crazy Frog overlord.
Loose Change (Score:1, Interesting)
The most interesting thing about the Google Video top 100 has been Loose Change [google.com]. For weeks it has been the only full length film that isn't short a very short titillation clip (eg Webcam Girls Go Wild) or dubious humour clips (eg funny clips baby fart) that has been in the top 20.
Loose Change is the most popular 9/11 "conspiracy theory" film, no doubt due to its slick graphics, soundtrack and editing -- for an amateur movie it is impressive. However it's not the most accurate movie of its type -- see the
self-fulfilling prophecy (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
Re:This doesnt work (Score:1)
Now even non-Subscribers can beat the rush...! (Score:2)
How Google Makes Thumbnails: by scaling the images down
How Google Displays Links: by using the anchor tag
How Google News Finds News: by scanning news sites
How Does Google Make You Feel Lucky: by showing you the first match
How about the videos google deletes? (Score:2)
Put this video up, and watch it be pulled down for "violence" or "copyright infringement", never mind that the show is not about violence, but about your rights under the Second Amendment, and never mind that Google is full of videos which are "copyright infringin
what "algorithms" (Score:2)
I'm serious, I would really like to be able to use algorithms like that
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Soccer (Score:2)
Re:Soccer (Score:1)
chaos! (Score:2)