Comments for "Related Videos Is Broken" Talk at VideoSift.com

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:06:30 -0700

Noticed that as well, a while back-Orb n' Ozric, baby....

By twiddles

twiddles (http://twiddles.videosift.com) — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:34:22 -0700

I always wondered what the criteria were for choosing the related videos. Might be nice to be able to suggest related videos, a related videos field, when submitting a video. Or a way to emphasize search terms / tags.

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:57:23 -0700

You're right, I can't see any logic in that ... hmmm.

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:20:27 -0700

These terms are common with the first related video with Cash and Kristofferson:
KRIS
"COMING DOWN"
STAR

Not broken. Just the best match available based on the criteria. Related videos are found by using the video's title+tags+summary to search for other videos with most weight given to matching titles then tags then summaries.

In this example, "kris" and "coming down" are both in the matched video's title and "star" is in the tags, so that's likely why it is related video #1.

By Eklek

Eklek (http://eklek.videosift.com) — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:18:18 -0700

^yes, this reminds me of the videos (possible duplicates) one sees before submitting a new one..

By Farhad2000

Farhad2000 (http://farhad.videosift.com) — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:32:41 -0700

Lucky you really think that is proper functionality?

Seems totally ridiculous to me.

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:48:44 -0700

If you have a less than totally ridiculous idea for how it should function, we're all ears, so please enlighten us.

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:22:53 -0700

"If you have a less than totally ridiculous idea for how it should function, we're all ears, so please enlighten us."

translation for Uzbek

"Get up and get it yerself, bitch!"

By xxovercastxx

xxovercastxx (http://www.videosift.com/member/xxovercastxx) — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:55:13 -0700

I would have thought the tags would be the most weighted. After all, they should be keywords that describe the content of the video. Titles are sometimes nonsense or in-jokes and even when they aren't, the individual words can easily be associated with completely unrelated things.

I'd almost go as far as to say the tags should be the only thing considered for related content.