{"id":7766,"date":"2013-02-06T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2013-02-06T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:13:12","slug":"kerala-tourism-finally-dominated-porn-films-in-the-youtube-top-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/kerala-tourism-finally-dominated-porn-films-in-the-youtube-top-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Tourism finally dominated porn films in the YouTube top search results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala Tourism Department successfully rid the porn videos that replaced tourism videos in the top search results in YouTube for the keyword \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\/tourism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kerala Tourism<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier porn videos dominated the 20 YouTube search results for the keyword <strong>&#8216;Kerala Tourism&#8217;<\/strong>. This was due to the visual carpet-bombing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Kerala+Tourism&amp;oq=Kerala+Tourism&amp;gs_l=youtube.12...0.0.1.429.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1ac.bcGVzfbAXNU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, a strategy launched way back in 2009.<\/p>\n<h3>Similar Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Varkala offers Paragliding \u2013 Be at the mercy of the winds\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/varkala-offers-paragliding-be-at-the-mercy-of-the-winds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Varkala offers Paragliding<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Agasthyakoodam \u2013 The Unexplored Place\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/agasthyakoodam-the-unexplored-place\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agasthyakoodam \u2013 The Unexplored Place<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Domination of porn videos for the keyword \u2018Kerala Tourism\u2019 has been a curse to Kerala. And Kerala\u2019s image was sullied globally.<\/p>\n<p>For the last 3 years, the Tourism Department has been uploading Kerala videos to YouTube. From daily vignettes and scenic beauty to festivals and cuisine, over 3,000 professionally produced videos have been uploaded.Last year, all these videos together got 1 million views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince Kerala was keen on having only discerning travelers, this association with porn was a dampener,\u201d said a top tourism official. Not only porn videos, other videos related to garbage and stray dog menace too made it to top.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube\u2019s search engine is not like Google\u2019s and it cannot show the best results for a search. Its algorithm depends on unreliable parameters like quantity, comments and ratings.<\/p>\n<p>By uploading its videos on YouTube the tourism department literally tricked the website into giving its videos greater preference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince all our videos were professionally made, travel agents and even academicians began accessing them. It also helped that Kerala Tourism has a working arrangement with YouTube,\u201d the tourism official said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gFedfnR5seI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"520\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala Tourism Department successfully rid the porn videos that replaced tourism videos in the top search results in YouTube for the keyword \u2018Kerala Tourism\u2019. Earlier porn videos dominated the 20 YouTube search results for the keyword &#8216;Kerala Tourism&#8217;. This was due to the visual carpet-bombing of YouTube, a strategy launched way back in 2009. 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