How does YouTube Works? YouTube Explained!!!
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| Working of YouTube Explained |
As you may have noticed,
the Google owned website is pretty simple to use and that is the reason
for its massive popularity. The videos you upload on YouTube are converted into
its Adobe Flash video format with the .Flv file extension. Due to this you can
play video using YouTube’s flash player which can be installed on your computer
or smart phone for free.
You can even embed youtube video
on your website. It can be done by simply copying the html come of the youtube
video and pasting it which makes it possible for people visiting your website
watch that particular video directly from your website. Without youtube, you
have to host that particular video on your website which requires large amount
of bandwidth, which is the range of signal frequencies needed to transmit data
over the Internet. YouTube carries the bandwidth burden for other sites that
want to show their video to the people visiting it.
The YouTube Algorithm
Generally
most of the videos are found by the viewers simply by searching. The youtube algorithm
of which you may have heard helps the viewers to get the video which they are
looking for which consists of over a million lines of code. When you search a
video on YouTube, the algorithm decides whether which videos will be shown to
you as a search result and in what order. The ranking of the videos is decided
by the 'metadata' which includes the title, description, tags and the
thumbnail. So for ranking your videos on youtube, you must make sure that these
4 are relevant toy your content and what viewers would have to search for so
they might end up finding it. YouTube also uses the length of time a viewer
watches a video. For instance, if a viewer stops watching a video after a few
seconds of clicking, the video thumbnail and title is a 'click bait' and this trick is used just to fool people to get quick views. Such videos
are so there ranking affects negatively. Whereas, if the video is seen for a
longer period of time, means the content of the video is relevant and it gives
the viewers what they want. Such video are highly ranked. Other than this, some methods of ranking
are not in your hands which company just keeps secret.
Storage of Videos
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| Data Centres at which YouTube videos are Stored |
According to a fact,
every minute 300 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube. So you might wonder
where do all these videos uploaded on YouTube stored. The answer is each and
every video uploaded on the website is stored at one of the Google's building
sized 14 data centre’s which are spread across the world. These huge buildings
has thousands of servers in them which are powerful computers that handle
billions of Google searches made everyday and also stores your videos. Cooling
towers which are of huge size helps to keep the temperature at stable 27 degree
Celsius or 80 degrees Fahrenheit. All the 14 data centre’s can communicate with
each other to exchange information between them. Whenever you upload a video,
it is stored at one of these data centre’s which is near you, but when a viewer
plays it, the video is sent to the nearest data centre to the viewer for making
it accessible.
Now that you have known the
working of YouTube, go watch and upload videos on YouTube. You might not know
there may be a creator hiding in you!!!
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