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Does google look at vids as duplicate content in the same way?

by mdunn123
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Hey guys,

Here's a question which I've never seen asked before and am quite curious as to the answer. Of course no one really knows 100% for sure what google is doing behind closed doors, but any experience with this would be much appreciated.

If I have a video which I want to distribute across many different video networks like youtube and so on...would google hit me with a duplicate content slap if it's on many sites? And will google only index just one of the videos in a specific result that I'm targeting?

Thank in advance guys!!!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author ripsnorta2
    I'm only guessing here, but I doubt that Google would be able to (at this time) determine if a video was duplicate content if it was hosted on different video sites. Not that it's a particularly difficult thing to do, a simple binary comparison should work, but it's an awful lot of processing to do this. The algorithm would simply compare the two files byte by byte. Much more time consuming than text.

    And it may be extremely simple to mess with this. I think that some of the video codecs used use lossy algorithms to compress the video data. It's entirely possible to have slightly different versions after compressing the same video twice, and it would be easy enough to do this anyway by changing some of the compression ratios, even by a tiny percentage. That would completely screw up any machine comparisons.

    The only way that I can think that Google could tell the videos were the same would be to have a human watch the videos side by side.
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  • Profile picture of the author keithisking
    my answer would be no. most video sites use flv flash video and most use swfobject javascript or something similar to embed the flash video. googlebot cant execute javascript so as far as its concerned there is no video on the page anyway.. even if it could detect a video, as the user above said after encoding and all that the videos would be totally different. MD5 checksum would be the only real way to tell if a video is the same file as another and google isnt going to do all that just to detect some duplicate video.
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