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tomiwa1a t1_j6b80iu wrote

Reply to comment by DenL4242 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

I don't think it's fair to say that comparing Youtube to a Library is like comparing Mt. Everest to a Cow. For one thing, there is actually a pretty clever way to estimate the amount of text on Youtube and compare it to the amount of text in a library.

Maybe, if I explain how we made the graph you'll see that it's more apples to apples than mountains to cows:

  1. We calculated the number of hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute from 2007-2022 source: statista
  2. We found how many words are spoken per hour of human conversation source: virtualspeech
  3. We calculated the number of words in the average book source: jericho writers

Then we did some calcualations with those numbers to arrive at 99,338,400 books on Youtube

You can see the details of those calculations here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UbekWhTLJKQj6ZLipg1R269CQ8g0ACDbzPRDFN14inc/edit#gid=52223737

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