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Posted by Chris F. on 07/10/07 14:45
"Mark & Mary Ann Weiss" <mweissX294@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:c5Cki.39106$Zr1.16841@fe08.news.easynews.com...
> This is an interesting question because, as a YouTube user myself
> (Basspig),
> around the beginning of 2007, something changed with the way YT indexes
> videos.
> Last year, when I uploaded my videos, they would be found on the 'most
> recent' page within 5-10 minutes. And with an hour, I'd have hundreds of
> views.
> After this year began, that was no longer happening. My videos didn't show
> up in the 'recent' list anymore and even if I searched on a specific
> keyword
> that was tagged to that video, YT search would not return the query.
> Videos
> uploaded since January 2007 have only gotten a handful of views in the
> first
> week. It's like TY buried them in a place where no one would find them.
> And
> yes, I did tag them Public.
> It used to be easy to get lots of views, but nowadays, I upload and wonder
> "why bother?" when no one can find them anymore.
> Well actually that's a non-issue now since April, because now I can't even
> upload any video to YouTube--the response from the sight is "undefined"
> and
> no bytes transfer. So I can't physically upload anything since then.
> So now I have moved on to DailyMotion.com, Break.com and Google Video.
> Also
> iFilm.com now has a YouTube-like uploads page. But like YT of today,
> videos
> get about 1 hit per day.
>
I'd still like to know how some videos, particularly some very stupid or
boring ones, manage to get thousands or millions of hits in a relatively
short time. Dumb luck maybe?
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