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Sort of. They built a video platform that they couldn't effectively moderate, so they built Content ID because they don't have the manpower to manually review
by dx87 7y ago
Sort of. They built a video platform that they couldn't effectively moderate, so they built Content ID because they don't have the manpower to manually review everything. Content ID is just a side effect of Google relying on algorithms to do everything.
- iso1631 7y ago> because they don't have the manpower to manually review everything. Because they don't want to pay for the manpower to manually review everything. Youtube gets 250-300 million hours of video uploaded every year. At $20 an hour to review it, that's $6b. Call it $10b. Alphabet made $86b last year.
- amylene 7y agoIt’s possible that a human review system would be even worse. Have you seen the studies that show how insurance adjusters, working from the same inputs, with clear evaluation rules, have spreads of > 40% for the same case?
- munk-a 7y agoI find it highly unlikely that more than 1/8th of Alphabet's profits are coming from YT, so that'd make it a cost center... and I'm willing to bet it'd be deep deep in the red.
- gareim 7y ago> Alphabet made $86b last year. They did not, and I'm curious where the mixup came from. They did $46.1b in revenue fiscal year 2019, and $10.7b in profits. https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/alphabet-earnings-show-google-cloud-on-10b-run-rate/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/alphabet-earnings-show-goo...
- iso1631 7y agohttps://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/gross-profit https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/gros... Alphabet gross profit for the twelve months ending September 30, 2019 was $86.264B, a 16.62% increase year-over-year.