Posted by Mark & Mary Ann Weiss on 07/10/07 02:24

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.

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