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August 16, 2011 08:03 pm GMT

YouTube's Director of Engineering Explains How 60% Of Videos Are Processed In Under A Minute

youtubespeedYou'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't think of YouTube as an Internet giant. After all, each viral hit is emblazoned with a big, bold counter racking up the millions " or tens of millions "of hits it's received, and you could waste lifetimes clicking on an endless stream of cat videos if you wanted to.But even then, it's hard not to be taken aback by some of the statistics the site drops from time to time. Like the fact that it's technically the Internet's second biggest search engine, after Google proper. Or a new figure that it's announcing for the first time: YouTube users are now uploading two hours of video every minute from mobile devices alone. And it gets over 200 million views a day from mobile devices.A reasonable response to stats like these would be, "How?"

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