YouTube's algorith is nuts

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paulik123

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Jul 30, 2009

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• Aug 24, 2013

• #1

Code:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=facebook

See for yourself...

How is animal sex first result for such a big keyword on youtube??
It doesn't even appear in the title or in the tags... Same for the top 5 results. Is it a youtube prank or something?

Can a mod edit the title? I forgot to put and m.

 

Last edited: Aug 24, 2013

GainRank

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• Aug 24, 2013

• #2

I see it ranked 5th. The reason it's ranked so well is that it's 2 years old with 25 million views and although it doesn't have Facebook in the title, it does in the description. Regardless of the title, YouTube ranking is similar to Googles ranking in the sense that you can rank for a keyword when it's not even in the title, it's all about backlinks and in this case also views, likes, favorites comments etc.

 

nixonsmom

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• Aug 24, 2013

• #3

Haha good stuff. I see it as rank 7 though.

 

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Junkfood00

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• Aug 24, 2013

• #4

And if you search Youtube, psy will come up.

 

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paulik123

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• Aug 24, 2013

• #5

I guess it depends on the country you're searching for but that is still awkward.

 

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ContentLockPro

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• Aug 26, 2013

• #6

Youtube ranking is not a perfect one. The same applies to the google