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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by magicalhippo on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:38PM (#19002765)
> We now pull in recommendations from a wider set of topics—on any given day, more than 200 million videos are recommended on the homepage alone.

What does the first part (wider set of topics) have to do with the second part (number of videos recommended)?

Anyway, YouTube recommendations are generally quite poor I find, though sometimes a few gems come along. I also made the mistake of watching YouTube on my Android TV box. Holy cow, an ad _every single minute_. And the same 4 ads, rotating.

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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by TravisDick on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:46PM (#19002831)
Just guessing, but it could be that they are claiming that 200 million unique videos are recommended on a given day, with the number of unique videos being a proxy for how diverse they are. Perhaps before some of their recent changes, the number of unique videos was smaller. (Who can say for sure, though)
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