Characterizing quality of content distribution from YouTube like portals
Anirban Banerjee, Dhiman Barman · 2007
YouTube like media portals have changed the way users access media content in the Internet. Among many popular media sharing websites, some of the most popular ones are YouTube [7], Google-Video [4], Yahoo-Video [6], Metacafe [5], Flickr [3] and BlipTV [1]. Two factors along with the ubiquity of the Web have bolstered tremendous growth of these sites, namely, availability and media quality.