YouTube Search Gets Its Own Version of Google's AI Overviews 3
Google is bringing its AI Overviews-like feature to YouTube in the form of an "AI-powered search results carousel." The Verge reports: As shown in a video, the search results carousel will show a big video clip up top, thumbnails to a selection of other relevant video clips directly under that, and an AI-generated bit of text responding to your query. To see a full video, tap on the big clip at the top of the carousel.
The feature is currently only accessible on iOS and Android and for videos in English and will be available to test until July 30th, per the YouTube experiments page. Additionally, only a "randomly selected number of Premium members" will have access to it, YouTube says in a support document.
The feature is currently only accessible on iOS and Android and for videos in English and will be available to test until July 30th, per the YouTube experiments page. Additionally, only a "randomly selected number of Premium members" will have access to it, YouTube says in a support document.
Well, that decides it. (Score:4, Interesting)
Youtube search is horrendous (Score:3)
But, the amount of video on there is so much that it's quite a tricky thing to do well I think. But there's clearly search manipulation going on as well becuase it also does not show certain videos when i even search for specific words that should show up.
Ah well.
Re: (Score:2)
Google's initial search technology based on PageRank was what gave them their reputation as being genius at search. That was only part of the story, as they had an advantage in scalability. Basically, for years they had more pages in their index than all the other competitors combined.
But that's ancient history. They filled up their search algorithm with all sorts of heuristic junk like typographic features, instead of sticking with tried and true IR science (PageRank was an adaptation of citation counts)