… is how much video is uploaded to Google’s Youtube, according to their official blog post today. And that’s an “exponentially growing” statistic they believe. That’s 18720 hours a day, or 780 days every day. Still with me? It’s a lot.
Of course, there will be a long tail of this stuff which is never seen by more than the person who created it, and at the top end there will be a small percentage that are viewed a lot. Sure enough, a wildcard type search (searching for “*”, if that’s valid) turns up the top video with 101 million views (a music video, like a lot in the top results of that list)… Wikipedia’s got some notes on the “heavy tail” distribution, which I’m guessing is what this is.
The important take out is that very quickly (by which I mean already) there’s too much content on Youtube for one person to make sense of. And therefore ways of pre-selecting, filtering and locating stuff of interest - like in every area online now - are needed, beyond just search…
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