Why the Number of O's In LOL Matter On YouTube 186
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from the laugh-a-little-louder dept.
karthikmns writes "It turns out that Google uses the number of o's in a lol to weigh how funny a video is. In a blog post Google explains how they came up with an algorithm to gauge a video's comedic potential. So if you want to watch funnier videos, make sure to add some extra o's or help them by visiting their Comedy Slam and voting."
Amazing (Score:5, Insightful)
From the people that used extra o's in Goooooogle to signal that there are more pages of search results.
I suppose that for certain people, adding o's is the plain text approach to add stars
Re:Amazing (Score:5, Funny)
Of course it matters (Score:5, Informative)
If you're over the age of 13 and you use more than one "O", you should kill yourself.
Re:Of course it matters (Score:5, Informative)
If you're over the age of 13 and still use "LOL", you should kill yourself.
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If you're over 13 and replace your O's with 'u' and throw a 'z' on for plural goodness, you must be L337!
And Goog has already blocked your content from their search results.
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TrololololoLOL
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Re:ooooooo (Score:2)
"Geoooooooooooooooge Jetson! Get back to work!"
Honorable mentions:
Captain Kirk: "Khooooooooooooooooooooon"
Loooooooooooooooooooong Cat is Loooooooooooooooong.
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If you use "LOL", you should kill yourself.
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We've been lol since the 80s, what year did you think we were going to stop?? rofl
Get off my lawn before you get macro bombed.
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looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool And I am way over 13. [grin]
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ur a faaaaaaaaaaaag
FTFY
If you are going to troll, do it right at least. 'your' (no capitalization) would have been acceptable as well.
Re:Ur (Score:3)
There were lots of hot fags in the ancient Mesopotamian City of Ur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh [wikipedia.org]
Recipe (Score:2)
Take the comedy up for votes focus of FunnyOrDie, mix in the everybody voting on everything of Digg and use the expanding O's in Google and the result is???
What *does* LOOL mean? (Score:5, Interesting)
Laugh Out Out Out Loud, Laugh Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud, and Laugh Out Loud Loud Loud Loud Loud.
I suppose the middle one could be Laugh Out Loud Out Laugh Out Loud Out Laugh, or possibly the recursive Lololol Out Loud (where Lololol is Lolol Out Loud and Lolol is Lol Out Loud),
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laughing over obscure optical objectivism over Ontario oval, out loud
It almost makes sense for some odd video of Candian egg jokes.
looooooool
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LOL is short for laugh out loud. L[arbitrary number of O's]L's are visual representations of "long" laugh out louds.
Why, thank you Captain Helpful, but I'm sure that the OP (along with everyone else reading) had that figured out already and was simply indulging in some playfully pedantic tongue-in-cheek analysis. :-)
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Heh. I know you really meant "whoosh".
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Maybe it's kind of like Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. Or however that thing goes...
Re:What *does* LOOL mean? (Score:4, Funny)
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. [wikipedia.org]
Here we have Wikipedia at its most absurdly straight-faced. Includes helpful picture of the City of Buffalo, New York, United States.
Stand back... (Score:2)
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Indeed. Google should detect these mangled 'lol' instances and replace them with a statement that reads to the effect of "I am a raging idiot, so I tried to put too many O's in my LOL."
What about alternative spellings ? (Score:2)
like "lul", "lulz" or "lullaz" ? or "lolzors", for that matter ?
Re:What about alternative spellings ? (Score:5, Funny)
Anybody who's anybody knows that the ultimate lol is the ROFLCOPTER.
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No one wants to factor in the comments of those lamers who think they're l33t.
Bad vs. Baaaaaaad (Score:2)
This isn't unlike an episode of Elvira's Movie Macabre from the 80's where between scenes of some bad horror movie she was asking a guest to comment on the ghetto slang used. He explained the difference between "bad" and "baaaaaad" that "bad" means bad and "baaaaaad" means good.
His example was funny. "The movies you show are bad, but your cleavage is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!"
I'd like to buy a vowel! (Score:2)
_OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO_
Uh, hmm... can I buy an E?
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Gmail Too (Score:5, Funny)
Google also measures the numbers of X's and O's in your emails to determine how much you love your mother.
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That immediately reminded me of this [youtube.com].
Re:Gmail Too (Score:5, Funny)
Length isn't everything... (Score:5, Funny)
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ex-fucking-actly.
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I think they've got the relationship wrong. The number of 'o's is inversely proportional to the IQ of the target audience.
And directly proportional to their proximity to a cat [xkcd.com].
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You laugh, but this is certainly part of the consideration. If you are looking for popularity, you want the lowest-denominator popularity, not just something with unique or niche-targeted humor.
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Wait (Score:2)
Data would be so disillusioned... (Brownie points if you get the reference!)
It would seem there can only be one "O" (Score:2)
in "LOL". If any additional "O"s are added it ceases to be "LOL" and turns into something else.
On a side note, I always thought that true expression of 'super funny' is to leave the last "L" off "LOL". "Laughing out" is like "bleeding out" but with laughing. If that doesn't convey just how out of control your laughter is nothing will.
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BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
But I can't use it often on slashdot, it's too much like yelling.
I have only one thing to say to this (Score:2)
Re:I have only one thing to say to this (Score:5, Insightful)
LL
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LL
Laughing Loudly?
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No. (Score:2)
How about zeroes? Or case? (Score:2)
LO0ol
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Hva hvis du er norsk?
løøøl
Directive 3? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Directive 3? (Score:4, Funny)
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So google has developed artificial intelligence that is forced to read YouTube comments all day? I wonder how many lines of code it took to keep it from commiting suicide.
Well, now we know the real reason Skynet hates humanity.
Is this actually... (Score:5, Funny)
... a measure of how funny a video is, or actually a measure of how stupid its viewers are?
Wait, this is YouTube comments, right? I think I just answered my own question.
YouTube - the only place where a kitten video can ignite a verbal race riot.
Finally! (Score:2)
I'm so glad someone has finally figured out how to extract something of value from some of the idiocy that's on the net.
Similar to... (Score:2)
LOL (Score:2)
LoOoOoOooOoooOooooOOOooL
And we have now seen... (Score:2)
...the origin of the most popular TV show of the 26th century, "Ow, My Balls!"
Same rule applied for football / soccer? (Score:5, Funny)
The importance of a score is determined by the number of O's in "Gooooooooooooooooooooal!"
Searching by loooool (Score:3)
"So if you want to watch funnier videos.."
It seems that if you type in a long looooooooooool to google then it will only give you videos with that exact number of o's.
Or at least, it shows search results from long looooooooolz to short looolz
This is getting dumb.
- We need scientific notation for lol, lulz, etc. like lol^50, lulz^150, etc. it's just not elegant now.
- We need a way to tell google to show ALL of them, funniest first. Google: video lol^50 to lol^40 desc
Otherwise what's the point of encoding video this way.
- Diminishing returns... and yet Google can't search beyond around 130 o's.
I calculate the funniest thousand videos or so are locked away from us in the long tail beyond google's search capability!
Google: looooooooool video
10 o's: 875,000 results
20 o's: 209,000
30 o's: 60,900
40 o's: 31,200
50 o's: 10,600
60 o's: 5,220
70 o's: 2,790
100 o's: 1,830
120 o's: 728
unfortunately many more than this and the word is too long and not allowed.
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I'm afraid to click any one of those results...lol.
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1. Please stop engineering LOL parameters. It's like using a Fibbonaci sequence to arrange little bags of flaming poop on a doorstep.
2. Having said that, you might be on to something with LOL notation. However, L(O * 10^8)L will more likely be misinterpreted as some form of bizarre Japanese emoticon involving tentacles and schoolgirl outfits.
Scraping the bottom of the barrel on "signals" (Score:3)
Google is scraping the bottom of the barrel on search "signals" here. Originally Google used links as a metric, and those were spammed with link farms. In 2010, they started using more "social signals". Google Places turned into a spam farm, and Yelp filled up with obviously bogus reviews. As Google used more "social" signals, Twitter filled up with spam tweets, Facebook got phony "likes", and a market developed in Google "+1"'s.
Social spam is worse than link spam. With link spam, spammers had to pay to set up and maintain link farms of fake sites. There were ways to recognize link farms. With social spam, the social networks host the fake accounts and their spam for free, and fake accounts are harder to recognize. Google tried a tough "real names" policy for Google+, and had to back down in the face of user and political opposition.
Anything Google uses as a signal gets turned to shit. Social is bad for search, and search is bad for social. [sitetruth.com]
Re:so (Score:5, Funny)
Re:so (Score:5, Funny)
I'll fill in the 5-digit spot; waiting for the 4-digit reply.
Re:so (Score:4, Funny)
Re:so (Score:5, Funny)
3 digits. Not once, but twice! Beat that!
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Lower 4 digit number, as not requested.
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i believe Mr Anonymous Coward qualifies as the 3 digit...is there a 2 digit in the crowd?
Re:so (Score:5, Informative)
UID 1 is CmdrTaco.
Re:so (Score:5, Funny)
EnsnTaco?
Re:so (Score:4, Funny)
-KD
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This from a guy with hundreds of "submissions." o:
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That would be CmdrTaco. He's probably off doing something more productive, like snorting cocaine from a hooker's buttcrack while coding up a new website.
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Present and accounted for.
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Though probably not until after me, as mine is lower.
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Darn you, now those creepers with exceedingly lower ID numbers are going to start coming out of the woodwork, calling everyone with a higher ID a noob.
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noob
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noob!
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Darn noobs get off my lawn! ;-)
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Oh? On second thought, I'd bet you'd notices oodles of other observables who matter.
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Orly? Ordinarily oodles of observables remain on other oceans, but only other oodles of offensive observables outright outcry outrage oftenly.
"Ouch!" The other-other oodles of observables open their orifices to own up owing to the oncoming ornery old officer's outrage (and his ostensibly outlandishly obelisk!).
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In his case, the correct designation is "nooooooob".
Re:LOOOOOOOOL!!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
I hope they are keeping in mind how low the bar is when studying YouTube comments.
Behind every terrifying comment on a youtube video is a member of the youtube audience. The very same audience this rating system is supposed to speak to.
I’ll accept that youtube comment section has such a bad rap that a lot of people who would make intelligent comments don’t bother, but I think in general youtube reminds us that there are a huge number of very unintelligent people out there and they probably make up the bulk of youtube viewership!
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Only because I was expecting someone else to have already posted this...
http://xkcd.com/481/ [xkcd.com]
Re:LOOOOOOOOL!!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
Iâ(TM)ll accept that youtube comment section has such a bad rap that a lot of people who would make intelligent comments donâ(TM)t bother, but I think in general youtube reminds us that there are a huge number of very unintelligent people out there and they probably make up the bulk of youtube viewership!
There is a FireFox extension called YouTube Comment Snob [mozilla.org].
I believe they have a version out for Chrome as well now.
It hides comments if they fail a certain number of rules:
* More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox's built-in spell checker.
* All capital letters
* No capital letters
* Doesn't start with a capital letter
* Excessive punctuation (!!!! ????)
* Excessive capitalization
* Profanity
Ever since I installed that add-on, set to "5 or more spelling mistakes and 4 or more rules fail", most video comment sections average out to 2-3% (That is: 2 or 3 out of every 100 comments) that I can still see.
It's almost as comical as the comments themselves, except at the end I don't want to slit my wrists as much.
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I thought prior art was pentimento.
Unless it's a guy named Arthur who's waiting to be promoted to Abbot.
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Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there. ... It's like YELLING.
Filter error:
Filter error: I hate you.