Is there any way to know this is being used only in positive-to-society ways? When Google has a near monopoly, is them having the ability to selectively censor or hide content and basically 'form' society's thoughts not something to be concerned about?
My first guess would be “authoritative” ranking ignores $$profit$$ when assembling results, that means counteracting effects of certain videos(viral, clickbaity, "hot" controversial topics, designed to rail you on/shock) being pushed in recommendations and forgets all the autoplayed "up next" clips, only counting organic conscious traffic (clicks in subscription, search tab and from external sources). TLDR it overlooks usual YT manipulation techniques designed to make you keep clicking/watching ads. I wish I as a user could manually trigger this hidden ranking on my search queries.
