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by pigtailgirl 1452 days ago
-- often read a lot of complaints about youtube search, a gentle reminder of the scale: "YouTube hosts over 800 million videos among 37 million channels on the platform. 1 billion videos are watched per day on YouTube by its over 2 billion users." - it's a wonder youtube isn't serving up vast amounts of junk in search - using the filters they provide I'm always able to find multiple decent videos about whatever I'm looking for - out of 800 million - not awful imo --
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Like literally google owns youtube and it has something like 100 times that scale. Text searching on 800m strings is a solved problem.