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You Tube search results and video tags

Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
edited 2012-10-06 02:26 in General Discussion
Out of curiosity I decided to do a You Tube search on the keywords Arduino, Basic Stamp, Picaxe, and Propeller Chip. Basic Stamp yielded about 4,480 results, Propeller Chip about 481 results, Picaxe 5,540 results, and Arduino about 101,000 results. Now there's probably a quantity versus quality dynamic, but that's a whole lot of Arduino videos.

So I looked at the keywords on my videos and realized that many of them didn't mention either Basic Stamp or Propeller Chip, so I properly tagged my videos with those keywords. It might be a drop in the ocean, but I figured properly tagging couldn't hurt.

Comments

  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-10-05 09:17
    Yes, I always try to include BASIC Stamp and Parallax where appropriate, at least in the description and usuallly the keywords. I'm not sure if that's redundant. Is the description searched as well as the keywords?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLdkKKMfUP0
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcuYXErG4Qs
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2012-10-05 09:44
    I imagine both are searched, but keywords are probably weighted higher by the search algorithm.
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2012-10-05 10:53
    To actually get accurate results for Basic Stamp, you need to put quotes around it to restrict the search to that exact phrase. This will help exclude unrelated results such as "Simon Says Stamp". Doing this, it drops to about 1900 results. You probably need to do this for Propeller Chip also.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-10-05 11:04
    The problem, in part, lies with the search terms. "Arduino" is just one very unique word and, all by itself, produces very targeted searches. Since "basic", "stamp", and "propeller" are common words, they need to be combined with other words to produce a targeted search. But, by doing so, you may eliminate many desired hits. For example, "propeller chip" will not match "parallax propeller" or any other target that omits the word "chip."

    -Phil
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,568
    edited 2012-10-05 11:18
    The order in quotes matters also ...

    "Parallax Propeller" has about 1000 hits where

    "Propeller Parallax" has about 420 hits

    ... You need to do something like ...

    +Propeller +Parallax ... which yields about 1,200 no matter which order
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2012-10-05 12:18
    The word "Arduino" is often used in place of "microcontroller" even when the topic is not specific to Arduino. Students that have no experience at all with electronics will just assume that the only thing out there that can control "stuff" is an Arduino. Sometimes they even seem suspicious of anything that doesn't have "-ino" in it's name.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-10-05 12:28
    Shucks, I just learned that Gordon's Ardbots are so named beacuse of the Arduino! Where's the Stampbot & Propbot?

    http://www.budgetrobotics.com/category/Chassis-Kits-161
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-10-05 13:14
    W9GFO wrote:
    Sometimes they even seem suspicious of anything that doesn't have "-ino" in it's name.
    Well, that clinches it then: Propellerino! Parallax, are you paying attention? :)

    -Phil
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2012-10-05 13:20
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    Well, that clinches it then: Propellerino! Parallax, are you paying attention? :)

    Is the Propellerino the supersymmetric partner processor to the Propeller?

    OK that was bad string theory joke.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2012-10-05 13:43
    Not that it matters but is that a bad joke about string theory or a joke about bad string theory?

    Ardueller?
  • TymkrsTymkrs Posts: 539
    edited 2012-10-05 16:07
    We've noticed that a lot of folks use Propellers in their projects but the tags are all about their projects and not the fact that they used a propeller in them. The difference then is that with projects including arduinos, people are fixated on the fact that it has arduino more so than the project itself.
  • xanaduxanadu Posts: 3,347
    edited 2012-10-05 18:08
    Sometime I leave out any Parallax references because I don't want people to think their product sucks because my video sucks lol, okay just kidding, only some of them.

    I like to use all the tags I can, and sometimes not identify what it is in the video itself. This is in hopes that one fine day, someone will ask, "what is that?"

    OMG A COMMENT!

    My YouTube just in case ;)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2012-10-06 02:26
    Strangely enough the Arduino was inspired by the BASIC Stamp. http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/the-making-of-arduino/0
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