Re:YouTube Created a Generation of Young Stars. Now They Are...
by cwkoss on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:26PM
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Are youtube's recommendations actually that good?
Recommendations for people I subscribe to are great, but don't need much magic.
Recommendations for creators I've liked or viewed many videos of before are generally good.
Recommendations for videos with tags that I tend to like are hit and miss.
Other recommendations are usually low quality garbage, in my experience.
I suspect their recommendation algorithm is overly complicated because it optimizes for ad revenue rather than value to viewer. I think a simple algorithm weighting viewer->creator score and creator->other creator score could produce higher quality recommendations than their current system. Maybe add a dash of keyword to the final sort to allow videos on the same topics to be grouped together.
Recommendations for people I subscribe to are great, but don't need much magic.
Recommendations for creators I've liked or viewed many videos of before are generally good.
Recommendations for videos with tags that I tend to like are hit and miss.
Other recommendations are usually low quality garbage, in my experience.
I suspect their recommendation algorithm is overly complicated because it optimizes for ad revenue rather than value to viewer. I think a simple algorithm weighting viewer->creator score and creator->other creator score could produce higher quality recommendations than their current system. Maybe add a dash of keyword to the final sort to allow videos on the same topics to be grouped together.