Related Videos Is Broken

Take a look at my Orb - Star 6 & 7 8 9 sift, watch it and then vote it up. You develop a sudden interest in Orb, so you scroll down to the Related videos.

But lo and behold is all Johnny Cash?!? Instead of being something obvious like other Orb sifts already on VS. Type Orb in search there are a whole bunch.

I see the same thing with many other videos. Something is rotten in Denmark. Please fix this.
twiddles says...

I always wondered what the criteria were for choosing the related videos. Might be nice to be able to suggest related videos, a related videos field, when submitting a video. Or a way to emphasize search terms / tags.

lucky760 says...

These terms are common with the first related video with Cash and Kristofferson:
KRIS
"COMING DOWN"
STAR

Not broken. Just the best match available based on the criteria. Related videos are found by using the video's title+tags+summary to search for other videos with most weight given to matching titles then tags then summaries.

In this example, "kris" and "coming down" are both in the matched video's title and "star" is in the tags, so that's likely why it is related video #1.

choggie says...

"If you have a less than totally ridiculous idea for how it should function, we're all ears, so please enlighten us."

translation for Uzbek

"Get up and get it yerself, bitch!"

xxovercastxx says...

I would have thought the tags would be the most weighted. After all, they should be keywords that describe the content of the video. Titles are sometimes nonsense or in-jokes and even when they aren't, the individual words can easily be associated with completely unrelated things.

I'd almost go as far as to say the tags should be the only thing considered for related content.

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