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As long as you’re logged in to YouTube when you watch videos, the site is busily keeping track of everything you see and trying to form an idea about what kind of videos you like. This information dynamically drives the home page you see, and YouTube tries to show you videos that it thinks you’ll like. Your home page will come to be dominated by material that is similar to material you’ve watched in the past.

Here’s a quick tour of what you’re likely to see when you log on to www.youtube.com after you create an account. (Again, we tell you more about creating an account later in this chapter, in the section “Working with a YouTube Account.”) Take a look at Figure 2-1 to see how a YouTube home page looks when you log in.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes you need a thousand words to explain what that picture is actually trying to show you. When it comes to the YouTube home page, you definitely need the thousand words. The list in the following section offers descriptions of what's on the home page.