This is definitely a good start, I would love to see more stats from google. I do however notice that they are already running into the issue that seems to plague YouTube, Myspace, and the web in general. The "cam girl / random underage ho" effect. I notice that quite a few of their videos are based around scantily clad ladies gyrating and or otherwise debasing themselves.

I wonder how many visitors we would need a day to have a massive impact on that list, I notice quite a few videos that have had relatively decent runs on videosift as well as some that were snubbed for lacking quality.

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Interesting. I think though when you take the human element out of rankings you lose something. I mean I know there is a human element, rating by views - but it's so crude and objective that it's not a very good judge of quality.

Of course, I might be slightly prejudiced with regard to video ranking methods.

They must be measuring views. If you look at the same top four via blog link references you get a very different picture...

1. Probably Greatest Pub Team in World (9 links)
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?as_q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-3219386766071397128&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btn
G=Search+Blogs&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&bl_pt=&bl_bt=&bl_url=&bl_auth=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=14&as_minm=4&as_miny=2005&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=4&as_maxy=2
006&lr=&safe=off


2. Amazing Juggling Finale (432 links)
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?as_q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D4776181634656145640&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG
=Search+Blogs&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&bl_pt=&bl_bt=&bl_url=&bl_auth=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=14&as_minm=4&as_miny=2005&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=4&as_maxy=20
06&lr=&safe=off

3. GIRLS BUNCO NITE OUT! (1 link)
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?as_q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-4763363661122415058&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btn
G=Search+Blogs&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&bl_pt=&bl_bt=&bl_url=&bl_auth=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=14&as_minm=4&as_miny=2005&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=4&as_maxy=2
006&lr=&safe=off

4. Incredible Machines (127 Links)
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?as_q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D6176491654107670145&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG
=Search+Blogs&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&bl_pt=&bl_bt=&bl_url=&bl_auth=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=14&as_minm=4&as_miny=2005&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=4&as_maxy=20
06&lr=&safe=off

Google needs to buy out videosift. The top videos on google are pretty lame, and they need a digg system like videosift's in order to get quality videos to show up at the top.

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Waiting by the phone for the call. ( ;