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Their recommendation algorithm is pretty terrible and seems to be based around people linking remotely to youtubes, rather than finding things on platform. Watc
by taurath 2y ago
Their recommendation algorithm is pretty terrible and seems to be based around people linking remotely to youtubes, rather than finding things on platform. Watch one “sleep white noise” video and that’s all that shows up in recommendations despite hundreds of subscriptions.
Like almost everything else Google it’s sort of not improved in 10 years and one can bet they’re ramping up “AI” recommendations internally right now to get near where TikTok was 4 years ago without “AI”.
- jotjotzzz 2y agoIt's mind-boggling since so many 'smart' people work there, they can't get it right. Another example is their search. I want to see the latest videos posted and filter them based only on the English language. It's fairly unusable in its current form. Users must rely on the algorithm to be fed "relevant" videos to watch.
- FrenchDevRemote 2y agoThey're getting it right, they just don't have the same incentives as the end users. Their KPIs are "time spent watching videos", "ads being watched", not "is the user happy" or "is he watching relevant content". Their products are designed to be addictive and profitable, not entertaining or useful.
- taurath 2y agoIt works for a few years and then everyone moves on, like almost every other platform that stops caring about the user