Posts Tagged ‘Algorithm’

YouTube Responds To Reply Girls, Changes Related & Recommended Videos Algorithm

The Reply Girl

Reply girl videos have taken over the related and recommended videos on popular YouTube video pages and over the past few months YouTubers have begun speaking out, signing petitions and even sending death threats in order to get YouTube to do something about this phenomenon. It looks like YouTube has finally responded, making changes to the algorithm that determines which videos appear in the related and recommended videos.

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Google Research Team Creates “aLOLgorithm” to Measure YouTube Videos’ Hilarity

No No no

There are a ton of funny videos on YouTube, but which are the most hilarious? How would you quantify funniness? Is ‘Surprised Kitty’ funnier than the ‘Sneezing Baby Panda’? Where does ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ fall on the funny scale? Google Research decided to find out so they created an algorithm to quantify comedy.

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