Monday, November 2, 2009

The YouTubes' Creepy Relevance Algorithm

How does The YouTubes make the connection between my video of Ozan conducting a baking-soda rocket experiment seen here:



and the "Related Videos" that it suggests?

Since there are no tags or keywords in the description of the rocket science video, it is rather amazing that they assumed I am a Funny Dancing Turkish Man, surrounded by crazy people from the Indian subcontinent as a result of a wedding.

2 comments:

iheffner said...

YouTube = Google;
Google.Knows( you );

Marshal said...

YouTube suggests related videos based on recent videos that other logged-in users have viewed who are also viewing the given video. Sounds like you might know a number of Turkish and/or Indian people watching other Turkish and/or Indian videos?

Granted, it's a weird algorithm, but I've seen this myself.