YouTube: The 2nd Largest Search Engine

YouTube The 2nd Largest Search Engine



YouTube is Transforming the Way We Discover Information Via the Web



2005: Founded in 2005 by three former PayPal employees



Bigger than Bing, Yahoo, Ask and AOL combined



1 billion unique monthly visitors



Nearly 1 out of every 2 internet users are on YouTube



YouTube reaches more US adults ages 18-34 than any cable network



If YouTube were a country it would be the largest in the world after China and India



It processes more than 3 billion searches a month



Bought in 2006 by Google for $1.65 billion



Fastest growing video sharing website in the world at the moment



100 hours of video are uploaded every minute



6 billion hours of video are viewed every month

( 50% increase in one year )



1 billion: Mobile makes up more than 25% of YouTube's global watch time with more than one billion views a day



Rankings: While the official formula to how rankings are made is unknown, these 4 factors seem to have impact:



- Number of views

- Video Description

- Video Title

- Video Ratings (likes, dislikes)



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