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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. Nothing like destroying an early beta by baadger · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  2. I'm flabergasted by suv4x4 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know, maybe it's not Google who hypes this up. Maybe they just posted it in a blog and the community took it up.

    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.