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Good for him and all, even though the search results were: 1) Painfully slow compared to Instant's realtime. 2) Only one at at time. 3) Text. (People respond t
by zerosandones 16y ago
Good for him and all, even though the search results were:
1) Painfully slow compared to Instant's realtime.
2) Only one at at time.
3) Text. (People respond to visual cues, and for a vid site, better to have thumbnails display in the results with captions.)
- InfinityX0 16y agoMinimum viable product, heard of it?
- zerosandones 16y agoFunctionality, heard of it?
- KeithMajhor 16y agoa DAY!
- bhjodokast 16y agoI agree! That is great API programming. Not everyone develops the APIs, some develop for the APIs. Made my day!
- peteypao 16y agoUm, it's not a serious product if you couldn't tell.
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- KeithMajhor 16y agoHe made it in a day.
- zerosandones 16y agoAnd I’m sure they'll give him time to work it out further, but is this the innovation YouTube is looking for? Hard to believe their UX people and dev teams haven’t already toyed with something like this.
- KeithMajhor 16y agoHe threw something together that people could get a feel for. I'll concede that it was hardly usable given the performance. But it was only a demo, enough of one to show just how usable the real thing could be.
- zerosandones 16y agoI'd agree, proof of concept did the job, just saying, it seems like something they had to have considered at some point internally. As doty said, they're hiring the person though. ;-p
- doty 16y agoI don't think this was a technology acquisition. :) I'm pretty sure they just want the person.
- sliverstorm 16y agoI get the feeling you're just bitter they didn't hire you instead. http://xkcd.com/192/ http://xkcd.com/192/
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- studer 16y agoIt's using existing mechanisms in YouTube's JSON API to find suggestions and play them. All the true "magic" is provided by YouTube's engineers. Not to take it away from someone who writes the right lines of JavaScript at the right time, but you don't have to place the guy on a pedestal. The real lesson here is for yourself and others here who think like you -- if you tell yourself that things like this take superhuman efforts, how will you ever be able to produce something creative yourself?
- cristinacordova 16y agoit was clearly hacked to show proof of concept. site is getting lots of traffic which would explain the slow results.
- metamemetics 16y agoI actually think it's interface is vastly superior to Google, Facebook, and YouTube. Zero clutter. Entertaining (I lolled at much higher rate). No interface elements distracting from the content (video). edit2: had mentioned an error the site was having, but it appears to be fixed now.
- what 16y agoIt was slow because he was going through his server to get the query suggestions from Youtube and lots of people were on it. It's been updated to get the suggestions directly from the source and it's significantly faster. Google's servers can handle the load better :)
- feross 16y agoYou are correct! I even ran into issues when Google automatically blocked my server for making too many repeated requests to the search suggestions endpoint. However, I rewrote the site to query YouTube directly for search suggestions, eliminating the round-trip to my server. Now, all the magic happens in each visitor’s browser, so it’s faster and Google can’t block it.
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