[charcircuit]

Let's do an informal experiment. In incognito I searched "how to seat a tire on a wheel"

The first result is 2:43 then 3:14 then a shorts drawer which are sub minute videos then 5:43 then 3:29.

It turns out that YouTube is not optimizing for showing 7 minute videos.

>YouTube optimizes for maximizing ads

While they do monitor for regressions of metrics like ad revenue improvements to the algorithm aim to improve the user experience as opposed to improving revenue.

[brookst]

That's funny. When I do exactly the same search on Youtube (incognito, but Chrome incognito so they still know my profile), I get videos of times 2:43, 10:20, 7:49, 7:37, and 7:42.