Video link itself is not there and this person's submission was shortlisted, how?

[Surya_Charan_Teja]

The video link itself is not there and this person’s submission was shortlisted, how?

[luluthepooh]

Googlers wrote code to process all the form data. They don’t have the time to filter out videos that don’t work - would require access to YouTube API. This is just for voting for a trophy award, they have much more important things to focus on - such as judging actual app submissions for the monetary awards.

[jonsouyang]

doesnt google own youtube…?

[luluthepooh]

Yes Google owns YouTube. Google has 182K employees working across various projects, apps, teams etc. YouTube employees aren’t working on Gemini API Developer Competition awards.

My guess is there is probably fewer than 5 people working on Gemini API Developer Competition stuff. Maybe they will have more judges by sharing with more Googlers to judge the app submissions themselves but those are for the financial rewards.

For a public voting system, I think they did a great job considering they have a lot of other things to focus on.

[ehsa_293]

I identified all the invalid youtube links here, hopefully they will use it to filter the invalid urls.

File Containing All Submitted Project YouTube URLs and Invalid/Non-Functional Videos on Voting Page, as well as list of videos that are too short (under 30 sec) or too long (above 5 min)

Hi @Lloyd_Hightower and @luluthepooh , As per your request to report any spam, I wrote a script that fetches all the valid YouTube videos from the projects submitted in the competition. I then checked which videos are public and functioning correctly. This attached file contains all the YouTube videos currently displayed on the voting page. If your project isn’t listed, it means either your YouTube video is invalid/private, or your project wasn’t included in the list. I hope this clarifies and…

[tocsa]

What does shortlisted mean? Is there some smaller list?