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Practicum · working creator

Why The YouTube Algorithm Will Always Be A Mystery

Tom Scott

Why this lecture is in the course

a working creator explains why no one can hand him a list of ranking factors: Lecture 2's learned recommender turns out to be the reason Lecture 4's "did the algorithm change?" question has no satisfying answer, and the reason keyword-stuffing survives as folklore long after it stopped describing anything

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5 min
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3 min
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