> Because YouTube doesn't care what you want--YouTube cares what it can monetize.
> You are the product, not the customer.
> Once you internalize that, stuff that Google does makes sense.
They published their algorithm. They rank items according to predicted watch-time. The other poster is probably correct, in that many people use these long classical music videos as background music over and over (i.e. high watch time) and so they're highly ranked.
Covington, Paul, Jay Adams, and Emre Sargin. "Deep neural networks for youtube recommendations." Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on recommender systems. 2016.
Nvidia furthermore implemented/released it for TensorFlow, and for their new Recsys engine:
> You are the product, not the customer.
> Once you internalize that, stuff that Google does makes sense.
They published their algorithm. They rank items according to predicted watch-time. The other poster is probably correct, in that many people use these long classical music videos as background music over and over (i.e. high watch time) and so they're highly ranked.