How Google Ranks Videos

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.'"

Comments

Re:No pigeons?

[markild]

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

Nah.. That's just for regular web-pages.

That's what makes this so special. They actually had to sit down and make an algorithm.

I wonder how accurate this is.

[micheas]

If you look at what google publishes about pagerank and compare what they say with the search results returned by google.com you will notice discrepencies.

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

[baadger]

So they rank video's by how _suddenly_ they become popular...and we go an put it up for a Slashdotting. Good luck unraveling them stats Googlers.