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I got frustrated with the Youtube recommendation system, and built a search engine of videos I scraped: https://www.findlectures.com

I'm relying primarily on trusted recommendations - if someone I trust likes a speaker, I'll index channels where they speak. This doesn't scale well, but it has made for a tool that works really well for doing research.

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Have you written about the challenges involved in this? Like does yt allow it? What do you index exactly? The implementation? Would be very interesting reading. There used to a few yt aggregrators around. I think the most successful was whatever became youtube kids (someone correct that please).

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