[OC] Youtube has over 1 billion hours of videos, we Built an AI Search Engine that can find exact timestamps for anything on Youtubetomiwa1a t1_j6bapiz wrote
Reply to comment by Purplekeyboard in [OC] Youtube has over 1 billion hours of videos, we Built an AI Search Engine that can find exact timestamps for anything on Youtube by simonezchen
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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