( CNN ) -- How do you know if your YouTube video is funny ? Google says you can start by counting the `` LOLs . '' Always fond of an ambitious algorithm , Google , which owns the Web 's top video-sharing site , has set out to try to determine scientifically which videos are the funniest , and what makes them so . There 's a certain irony to the degree of wonkish jargon needed to explain the things that make us laugh in a blog post from Sanketh Shetty , a Google researcher and member of the Web giant 's amusingly titled `` Slam Team . '' He said identifying , and ranking , comedy is harder than a previous Google music project . `` We noticed a few audiovisual patterns across comedy videos on YouTube , such as shaky camera motion or audible laughter , which we can automatically detect , '' Shetty wrote on the Google Research Blog . `` While content-based features worked well for music , identifying humor based on just such features is Al-Complete . Humor preference is subjective , perhaps even more so than musical taste . '' And , in a way , that 's the thing with humor , is n't it ? Who can say , for example , whether the Honey Badger is funnier than a guy on a buffalo ? What 's worth a bigger laugh -- snooty British actors reciting lines from `` Jersey Shore , '' or the Dramatic Chipmunk ? So how does the rating process work ? First , Google 's speech-recognition technology lets it scan videos for cues such as laughter . Also factored in are key words the uploader uses in the video 's description ( `` funny , '' `` hilarious , '' etc . ) and language viewers use in that video 's comments section . So if people type `` Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! '' ( or cultural equivalents such as `` jajaja '' or `` kekeke '' ) , that earns a point in the video 's favor . Same for webspeak such as `` LOL '' or `` LMAO . '' Then the algorithm kicks in . It awards extra credit when people put extra emphasis in their responses . So , an `` LOLOL '' is worth more than an `` LOL , '' and the more exclamation points , the better . Hah ! ! ! ! ! Google 's coders taught the algorithm how to use that information to rank the site 's videos . Or , in Shetty 's delightful jargon : `` We then trained a passive-aggressive ranking algorithm using human-annotated pairwise ground truth and a combination of text and audiovisual features . '' Got it ? The final step is where you come in . Top-ranked videos have made it into what Google is calling its `` Comedy Slam . '' Users see two videos side by side and vote on which they think is funnier . So far , 75,000 people have cast 700,000 votes , Shetty said . He did n't mention when results might be announced . When the `` slam '' is done , maybe we 'll finally know -- which is funnier , the Double Rainbow Guy or `` David After Dentist . ''
Google has created an algorithm that scores videos based on user feedback , other info . Users can vote on YouTube 's top finishers in a `` Comedy Slam '' Researcher : `` Humor preference is subjective , perhaps even more so than musical taste ''