[OC] Youtube has over 1 billion hours of videos, we Built an AI Search Engine that can find exact timestamps for anything on YoutubePurplekeyboard t1_j62z8oy wrote
Your AI search engine doesn't seem to work. I tried searching on multiple things from youtube videos, like "I gotta have more cowbell", and it produced results which didn't in any way relate to what I searched on.
tomiwa1a t1_j6bapiz wrote
The reason that happens is because unless someone has previously submitted a youtube video with "I gotta have more cowbell" we won't have it in our index.
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>The transcripts get added on-demand when users request to search for a video. It wouldn't make sense to index the entire database given it's large size. We're also able to get the transcripts pretty quickly, so there's no need to pre-cache the transcripts if a user has never asked for it before.A more detailed overview of how it works can be found here:
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