Google algorithm vs youtube algorithm - who do you think is more complex?

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  • Yahoo! and Bing are more complex. Seriously. Because most people here keep asking how to rank high there.
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    • Well, google owns youtube....

      I am not even sure what the question is.

      Youtube's algo is built on relevance, views, maybe ratings.
      They don't have much to go on. It's a video.

      The majority of people that do searches for videos do so on youtube.

      Youtube and google use a completely different database.

      The question makes no sense.

      If yahoo and bing are more complex, then their model is a dismal
      failure of complexity.

      Paul
  • google for sure. You can still write 100's of keywords in your videos description and youtube search will still display your video for all the keywords...
  • Google is much more complex, without a doubt.
  • Google for sure, YouTube has not nearly as many factors to consider...but video views and ratings play a bigger role.
  • Youtube is a very simple algorithm - just get the most views, get more awards, comments, etc. etc.... Google you would have to sometimes take years to rank for certain keywords.
  • Google's search algos are far more complex. As Paul mentioned there are only so many variables that you can check for on a video, that's completely managed on its own video platform.

    Things like views, ratings, relevancy, overall engagement, aside from those maybe some smaller indicators but you can only go so deep with Youtube.
  • They are virtually based on the same algorithm due to the fact that there's no way to indicate what a video is about based on it's actual video content, just the meta data and text surrounding that video.

    Once a video get's ratings and views than it becomes easier for a learning based algorithm to rank it's videos.
  • Google is more complex, youtube were simple, just you'll need lots of comment, views etc.
  • My answer: Definitely Google.
  • Thank you guys for your opinions sounds like Google wins all.
  • I'd also say google. Youtube hasn't had enough time to reach the level of google. Since that is their main baby. Everything else would be secondary.
  • Google by far. Too many other factors to worry about (on page and off page) compared to YouTube which is based solely upon social proof (views, comments, likes, etc.).
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