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Why the Number of O's In LOL Matter On YouTube
karthikmns writes "It turns out that Google uses the number of o's in a lol to weigh how funny a video is. In a blog post Google explains how they came up with an algorithm to gauge a video's comedic potential. So if you want to watch funnier videos, make sure to add some extra o's or help them by visiting their Comedy Slam and voting."
From the people that used extra o's in Goooooogle to signal that there are more pages of search results.
I suppose that for certain people, adding o's is the plain text approach to add stars
If you're over the age of 13 and you use more than one "O", you should kill yourself.
Take the comedy up for votes focus of FunnyOrDie, mix in the everybody voting on everything of Digg and use the expanding O's in Google and the result is???
The obvious comment was to respond 'Looooooooooooooooool!', but Slashdot's robotic speech Nazi won't allow it.
Not much. On Slashdot, only the number of digits in your user ID matters, you 7-digit noob.
...OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
This is now the funniest Slashdot comment in history.
This must be the first time I've seen an algorithm pulled directly from the anus of a goat. The idea itself, however, is fool-proof.
Looooooooooooooooooooooooooool.
So, we have loool, lolololol and lollll. The acronyms seem to break. Especially the first one.
Laugh Out Out Out Loud, Laugh Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud, and Laugh Out Loud Loud Loud Loud Loud.
I suppose the middle one could be Laugh Out Loud Out Laugh Out Loud Out Laugh, or possibly the recursive Lololol Out Loud (where Lololol is Lolol Out Loud and Lolol is Lol Out Loud),
So LOOOL (Laugh Out Out Out Loud) is as funnier than LOL (Laugh Out Loud)? While the attempt at an algorithm to discover funny videos is interesting, I hope they are keeping in mind how low the bar is when studying YouTube comments.
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... Google knows regular expressions! :)
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Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh, Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh the right stuff.
OMGWTFLOL
I'll fill in the 5-digit spot; waiting for the 4-digit reply.
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4 digits as requested.
Darn you, now those creepers with exceedingly lower ID numbers are going to start coming out of the woodwork, calling everyone with a higher ID a noob.
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like "lul", "lulz" or "lullaz" ? or "lolzors", for that matter ?
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I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad you asked that question.
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i believe Mr Anonymous Coward qualifies as the 3 digit...is there a 2 digit in the crowd?
This isn't unlike an episode of Elvira's Movie Macabre from the 80's where between scenes of some bad horror movie she was asking a guest to comment on the ghetto slang used. He explained the difference between "bad" and "baaaaaad" that "bad" means bad and "baaaaaad" means good.
His example was funny. "The movies you show are bad, but your cleavage is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!"
_OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO_
Uh, hmm... can I buy an E?
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Google also measures the numbers of X's and O's in your emails to determine how much you love your mother.
3 digits. Not once, but twice! Beat that!
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
I think they've got the relationship wrong. The number of 'o's is inversely proportional to the IQ of the target audience.
So "lawl" doesn't count? Or "lal"?
Data would be so disillusioned... (Brownie points if you get the reference!)
watch as UID#1 (whichever guy that is) appears and taunts us all
in "LOL". If any additional "O"s are added it ceases to be "LOL" and turns into something else.
On a side note, I always thought that true expression of 'super funny' is to leave the last "L" off "LOL". "Laughing out" is like "bleeding out" but with laughing. If that doesn't convey just how out of control your laughter is nothing will.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
I flat-out refuuuuse to encourage this asinine trend.
When someone says, "Any fool can see
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JCPM: looolli-pooops!
UID 1 is CmdrTaco.
"Total destruction the only solution" - Bob Marley
Oh? On second thought, I'd bet you'd notices oodles of other observables who matter.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
I've been told I'm quite negative. Does that count in this silly game?
LO0ol
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
That's funny. For years I've used that same method to determine how vacuous a video is.
... let them also estimate the blondness of users by the pinkness of their writing and the number of curvaceous hearts on top of "I"s. Then I can rest at peace ...
Present and accounted for.
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1. Take over the world.
2. Get a lot of cookies.
3. Eat the cookies.
Which has been demoted :(
I have a very big penis.
So google has developed artificial intelligence that is forced to read YouTube comments all day? I wonder how many lines of code it took to keep it from commiting suicide.
... a measure of how funny a video is, or actually a measure of how stupid its viewers are?
Wait, this is YouTube comments, right? I think I just answered my own question.
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It says "Posted by Sanketh Shetty, YouTube Slam Team, Google Research". As an actual researcher, I would say this research work is rather shetty.
I don't see why Goggle just chooses to count the letter "o" when the number of letter "g"s in a word is just as important. Shrug.
a+++++ great article, so true
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That would be CmdrTaco. He's probably off doing something more productive, like snorting cocaine from a hooker's buttcrack while coding up a new website.
which is totally what she said
EnsnTaco?
LOOOOL, now all they have to do is find the optimal number of 'O's. Surely the Google algorithm wouldn't be fooled by a few thousand of them, and would eventually determine that some number just shy of ridiculous is optimal. Then the SEOs will pick that number. Metric approaches uselessness in... about... Now!
I'm so glad someone has finally figured out how to extract something of value from some of the idiocy that's on the net.
noob
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LoOoOoOooOoooOooooOOOooL
I want to play Free Market with a drowning Libertarian.
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The importance of a score is determined by the number of O's in "Gooooooooooooooooooooal!"
I am officially gone from
"So if you want to watch funnier videos.."
It seems that if you type in a long looooooooooool to google then it will only give you videos with that exact number of o's.
Or at least, it shows search results from long looooooooolz to short looolz
This is getting dumb.
- We need scientific notation for lol, lulz, etc. like lol^50, lulz^150, etc. it's just not elegant now.
- We need a way to tell google to show ALL of them, funniest first. Google: video lol^50 to lol^40 desc
Otherwise what's the point of encoding video this way.
- Diminishing returns... and yet Google can't search beyond around 130 o's.
I calculate the funniest thousand videos or so are locked away from us in the long tail beyond google's search capability!
Google: looooooooool video
10 o's: 875,000 results
20 o's: 209,000
30 o's: 60,900
40 o's: 31,200
50 o's: 10,600
60 o's: 5,220
70 o's: 2,790
100 o's: 1,830
120 o's: 728
unfortunately many more than this and the word is too long and not allowed.
I think on this particular point I'm not going to listen to
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle
Not much, but if you write a frosty that says "Why?" in the subject and body, you will be modded +5 insightful.
In his case, the correct designation is "nooooooob".
Darn noobs get off my lawn! ;-)
Though probably not until after me, as mine is lower.
Not much. On Slashdot, only the number of digits in your user ID matters, you 7-digit noob.
Having a low UID is so mainstream.
Google is scraping the bottom of the barrel on search "signals" here. Originally Google used links as a metric, and those were spammed with link farms. In 2010, they started using more "social signals". Google Places turned into a spam farm, and Yelp filled up with obviously bogus reviews. As Google used more "social" signals, Twitter filled up with spam tweets, Facebook got phony "likes", and a market developed in Google "+1"'s.
Social spam is worse than link spam. With link spam, spammers had to pay to set up and maintain link farms of fake sites. There were ways to recognize link farms. With social spam, the social networks host the fake accounts and their spam for free, and fake accounts are harder to recognize. Google tried a tough "real names" policy for Google+, and had to back down in the face of user and political opposition.
Anything Google uses as a signal gets turned to shit. Social is bad for search, and search is bad for social.
Lower 4 digit number, as not requested.
See sig.
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Orly? Ordinarily oodles of observables remain on other oceans, but only other oodles of offensive observables outright outcry outrage oftenly.
"Ouch!" The other-other oodles of observables open their orifices to own up owing to the oncoming ornery old officer's outrage (and his ostensibly outlandishly obelisk!).
LL
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Look out, our omniscient, omnipotent overload overhead our outragous obsession over ordinary laughter.
At least there'll be less than 10K of them.
This from a guy with hundreds of "submissions." o:
Darn you, now those creepers with exceedingly lower ID numbers are going to start coming out of the woodwork, calling everyone with a higher ID a noob.
noob
Since (as we were reminded earlier in this thread), Anonymous Coward is actually user ID 666, does this mean I can pull rank and call *you* a noob just by ticking "post anonymously"? ;-)
Too bad CmdrTaco died :(
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Not sure if it counts if it is posted by a cron job launching perl script grepping /. for /u(ser +)?ID/ig
Darn you, now those creepers with exceedingly lower ID numbers are going to start coming out of the woodwork, calling everyone with a higher ID a noob.
Not to mention exploding behind your back.
I did a similar thing by counting the number of smiley faces back in 1991. Post is here: http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/browse_thread/thread/ae73ac0e54e3641/f1ed4a7b4e37f52a?q=scott+simpson+smiley
noob!
Jetsooooooooooooooooooooooooon! Yoooooooooooooooooouur Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiired!
OFFS!
This kind of useless riff-raff makes me a sad panda.
They're funny. Funnier than giggles and goggles.
why not look at any word composed only of l and o and count the total letters? what about lmfao, etc?
Too late. The FBI are on their way. I think the TSA tipped them off.
As long as the nice man leaves it in your ass, sure.
This should not be here. L0OoO0l! What does a :O count as? Funny or surprising?