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Search: index title, description, tags, auto-generated captions. Captions from speech-to-text enable searching spoken content.
Discovery: recommendation drives most views. Signals: watch history, likes, subscriptions, demographics. Candidate generation (millions → thousands) then ranking (thousands → dozens). Freshness matters: boost new uploads.
