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Ferret7446 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube now world's largest media company, topping...

Realistically you cannot make every video discoverable given the massive ever growing amount of content.

lairv 6 months ago [–]

Wikipedia says there's 14.8 billion videos currently uploaded to YouTube, it seems technically easy to index that amount of title+description?

The more likely explanation is that Google doesn't want YouTube to be crawled, which gives them a massive moat for AI training

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