Google's coders taught the algorithm how to use that information to rank the site's videos.
The then-new cable channel MTV, criticized for its almost exclusively white playlist, finally started playing Jackson's videos.
The incident, however, called attention to threats against the artist's life made in a street gang's videos and posted online in recent months.
Her bed, in the middle of the stage, is a thing of wonder, thanks to Mark Henderson's superb lighting and Nina Dunn's videos.
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The group's videos build on a rising chorus of voices calling for change in the way people from richer countries see those who live in poorer places.
"I have seen Ricky's videos and I have seen that he is a great fighter, " said the 27-year-old, who is a few months older than his Lanarkshire challenger.
Mr Obama's videos have had 52m views, Mr McCain's 9.5m.
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There's YouTube videos on how to kiss passionately, among other things, and we think that's probably who's looking for it.
Brock was inspired by Mr. Mullins's YouTube videos (the two have never met, online or otherwise).
The copy protection on most of Google's paid videos means that after they're purchased, they can't be played on anything but a PC connected to the Internet running Google's video player.
Marketing chief John Anton hopes that 4 million people will view Pedigree's Web videos and download an iPhone application called "Shake and Bark, " which will let users put a photo of their dog (complete with Pedigree logo) on their iPhone.
Bessie Smith's version of St Louis Blues was even filmed in a kind of predecessor of today's music videos - she acts out the part of a woman knocked to the ground by a two-timing boyfriend, and then moves to a bar to sing the blues.
Globally, Mr. Shimabukuro began connecting in a big way via one of YouTube's first viral videos, a rendition of George Harrison's rock elegy "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" shot in Manhattan's Central Park in 2006.
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This is a concept for a platform that will post an ongoing series of short documentary videos from research labs around the U.S. These videos will feature true-life, human stories of young scientists, especially women and minorities, who can provide inspiring role models for the next generation.
But for now, there's two working videos already doing the rounds from Canada and we've included them both below.
Even the star of "America's Funniest Home Videos" and "Full House" can't escape the wrath of the Web unscathed.
Shortly after the clip's selection it entered the app's "popular now" list, signalling it was one of the product's most viewed videos.
On Nov. 9, with 34 laps to go in a late-season race at Phoenix International Raceway, ABC pre-empted its live national coverage of the event for the umpteenth airing of its cheesy reality show America's Funniest Home Videos.
And, like the bus company's sudden preference for legal videos, many are happening without Mr Fox's help.
"Adobe's player turns our videos into a channel that has its own feel, " he adds.
The 33-year-old born-again Christian's bizarre internet home videos have attracted a cult following that could change the face of golf forever.
The site now has channels that give you the day's news, entertaining videos or the TV shows you want to watch.
He's been working with videos, books and instruction for a couple years.
In the past three weeks, she's posted nearly 40 videos on iReport.
"This is a YouTube moment, that's all this was, " said Senate President Steven Sweeney, a Democrat, referring to Mr. Christie's nationally popular online videos.
Google has struggled to profit from YouTube's enormous stock of videos and user accounts since the search giant acquired the company in October of 2006.
There is an entire economy of widgetmakers, and most of them are small, with some significant exceptions: YouTube was first adopted by MySpace members, who used the site's software to post videos on their profiles.
In addition, it's running an online contest that encourages participants to submit videos about signs it's time to leave a job.
Combing data for buyers of other Disney videos and children's clothing by size, Safeway harnessed the results and wound up selling more 101 Dalmations videos than any other U.K. retailer.
That's different from how YouTube works now, where the most popular videos, like PSY's "Gangnam Style" music video, make the most money from advertising.
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