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I’m pretty sure google uses the captions in search. As long as you search from within YouTube. I regularly search for keywords and find hourlong videos where it
by ramraj07 3y ago
I’m pretty sure google uses the captions in search. As long as you search from within YouTube. I regularly search for keywords and find hourlong videos where it’s mentioned somewhere in the middle and nowhere in the description.
- gniv 3y agoI still have doubts. Google uses anchors heavily in search, so it's hard to prove if a result is due to matches in captions or in a website linking to the video. Would be good to find proof one way or another.
- ramraj07 3y agoFWIW I tried to find the norm MacDonald clip where he sings about the "impossible bat" and YouTube was spot on.
- roncesvalles 3y agoI suspect what you see is the search "learning" from the users -- someone is looking for a specific video that they've seen before but need to refine the search terms a few times before they find it. Thereafter, Google remembers the entire sequence of search terms and associates them with the video even though none of those terms might actually exist in the indexed video metadata. I've noticed that Google Search at least does this very obviously.
- ramraj07 3y agoI mean Google search does it obviously using page rank which is that if someone links to the page with that word it uses it. Me I was searching for arcane words that I remembered hearing in the middle of a podcast. I doubt anyone actually linked or searched for the same with relevance to that podcast. Also the solution you're saying needs far more intuitive and intricate development than just indexing captions lol.