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> Youtube would be in no danger if all it was doing was keyword-matching with recommended videos. What order should those keyword matching videos come back in?

> Youtube would be in no danger if all it was doing was keyword-matching with recommended videos. What order should those keyword matching videos come back in? By total views, by 30 day views, popularity, by upvotes, by downvotes, by keywords in the title, the description, the comments, the video itself? Any choice made would be effectively indistinguishable from "designing the [search] to maximize engagement" as it comes to the law, since search itself is a method of surfacing new videos, and the order (even if only the default order) would matter.

kelnos 4y ago
> "designing the [search] to maximize engagement" as it comes to the law I don't think the law has a definition for that term. I think it's -- probably correctly -- up to judges (and/or juries, depending on the type of case) to weigh intent and decide if a search engine to be liable for the results it produces. This idea that "doing literally anything is an evil engagement maximizer" seems too simplistic for how the world actually works.