Google has recently changed the annoying 301+ count of YouTube video views with the actual number of views a video receives.
Before, the tech company could not immediately filter views from real people and robots, so whenever a video gets viewed more than three hundred times, the open-ended 301+ count is displayed before the viewers are finally sorted as humans or robots for a few hours.
With the new algorithm of the company, viewers of videos are automatically filtered as real people or just sneaking robots. The generated count, which Google is confident to be authentic, is displayed instead of the indeterminate 301+.
The 301+ number used to appear on new videos that are gaining more popularity at a fast rate. The verification of the authenticity of views is vital to the company's revenues on ads where it primarily gets its income.
Many wondered why the company chose the number 301. Of all the numbers, Google's choice of 301 does not carry any significant message. The product manager, Ted Hamilton of YouTube analytics, explains that the number was chosen with no other hidden implications or agendas, except for the fact that hundreds of views in a single moment can be questionable since robots can do that.
Newly uploaded videos that gets hundreds of attention in just 12 hours are the ones that show a halted '301 views' count or 301+. But at the back of this, the system continues to count the views since no traffic is allowed to be lost.
Famous videos on YouTube can have more than 301 likes but the number of displayed views are only limited to the said number. According to Hamilton, most YouTube channel owners question the process.
It may be of no importance to viewers, but those who uploaded them would more likely want to know the exact views which their videos get through a period of time.
