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Unless the team is really smart and very good at various recommendation algorithms and mathematical tricks(which is not doing so well now),I don't see them goin
by maxwin 16y ago
Unless the team is really smart and very good at various recommendation algorithms and mathematical tricks(which is not doing so well now),I don't see them going anywhere. Everyone can pull out the videos overnight using the Youtube API but only everyone can write a good filtering algorithm to decide what to show.
- necrecious 16y agoRecommendation algorithms are not that tricky, anyone can get 90% of the best algorithm in a couple of weeks. (OK, maybe not anyone, but my friend at Google did it for fun to compete in Netflix competition.) The thing recommendation engines need is data and lots of it, which Youtube has in spades and these guys have to start from scratch.