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Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by krapp on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:03PM (#23264275)
>I don't think curation was an important feature.

Maybe it wasn't in the beginning, but Youtube is a Google company now, and their entire business model is based on (mostly) algorithmic curation. The business model of every content creator depends upon catering to the preferences of that algorithm, and their success at doing so determines their value to advertisers. Entire genres of content have come into being and have been destroyed overnight because of the algorithm.

Youtube's success mostly comes from driving discovery of new content through recommended channels and videos.

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Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by the_af on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:37PM (#23264831)
That was my point, it wasn't in the beginning. YouTube's initial success wasn't caused by curation, which is the implication I was replying to.

I'm not sure the discovery/recommendation algorithm is the same as curation. It seems to me these are related but distinct fields.

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