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YouTube 1st of March Update

Second update of the year

By Vlad Constandes, SEO News Editor

3rd of March 2008, 19:56 GMT

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What you get with the new personalized homepage

Late last week, the YouTube development team flashed before our eyes the option to virtually add a social layer to the popular video sharing site and said that the changes would come 'soon.' Naturally, a couple of days later when you read that there's been an update, you have your hopes high that it be the one promised, but no such luck. The experimental

personalized homepages are still in the testing, with only few people actually using it. If you should want to opt-in on the hot action, here's a link that will get you on board.

One of the new features appearing on YouTube is Character counter for video comments, useful for when you just start typing and don't know when to stop, or lets you know just how many words you can fit in before hitting the 'submit' button.

Contextual help in 'My Account' is the second newly-added feature, and it has to do with the new help icons that have appeared next to some of the buttons in the account page. "To see instructions and helpful information related to managing things like your channel design and videos, just hover over the '?' icons. Click the 'read more' link to go directly to the full article related to that particular feature in our Help Center," the team's blog reads on the topic.

Those two and the possibility to opt-in for the personalized home pages are the highlights of the update. As usual, there's some work done that doesn't usually catch everybody's eye, but a heavy viewer will immediately notice. The Sort by Relevance and Sort by Date options have been brought back after receiving scores of feedback from the users that demanded this to happen. Two out of the four sorting methods have been added, but when could we expect the Sort by Ratings and Sort by View Count? Probably, the next update will clear the air, but you have to demand it in a strong voice.

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Comment #1 by: Matt on 04 Mar 2008, 04:15 GMT	reply to this comment
Why in the world did they take out the sort by views and rating feature?? How do I contact youtube? What a stupid move on youtube to remove these. "Sort By" is what made it possible to browse good videos relatively easy while avoiding the crappy ones. They better bring this back or I'm leaving youtube!

Comment #2 by: Paul on 08 Mar 2008, 03:45 GMT	reply to this comment
I came here on my search for a solution for being able to sort by rating... Really really annoying that youtube removed that ability, i don't understand why they did it... I hope youtube fixes it fast... And i hope they read this forum..

Comment #3 by: Oren on 26 Mar 2008, 12:10 GMT	reply to this comment
I agree with the comments above. I too got to this page after searching why youtube removed the "sort by views" option. Maybe someone can enlighten us about this bizzare act?...

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