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How Google Ranks Videos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hello-kate-monster dept.

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.'"

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  1. No pigeons? by MarkByers · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I was so sure they were using a team of trained pigeons...

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    I'll probably be modded down for this...
    1. Re:No pigeons? by richdun · · Score: 2, Funny

      My money was on manatees.

  2. Re:Barbie Girl by TadZimas · · Score: 1, Funny

    You obviously haven't been on the internet long enough.
    Chubby nerdy tranvestites ARE the most popular thing on the internet.
    Hands down.
    Followed with Songs by Aqua at a distant second.

  3. I've never been so embarrassed in my life. by born_to_live_forever · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm from Denmark, so naturally my first thought was to see which vids were considered most popular in Denmark, according to Google. The results were disheartening, embarrassing, but far from surprising.

    Crazy Frog.

    Dozens and dozens of crappy variations of a done-to-death meme.

    Kill me now, and get it over with.

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    - Peter Ravn Rasmussen

    1. Re:I've never been so embarrassed in my life. by lagfest · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh it's not that bad, only 44 out of the top 60 vids are Crazy Frog related.
      I, for one, welcome our new Crazy Frog overlord.

  4. Re:I'm flabergasted by hackstraw · · Score: 2, Funny

    But COME ON, is this really worth an article on Slashdot?

    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

    A dumb blond wrecking her car...