Indexing was discussed a bit here. In my opinion it is not feasible to do what you are looking for on the base layer of SAFE network. Think about it…everything happens client side. The site would be unusable if the user has to download the whole content index of the site every time they visit it. Or even if they just have to do it the first time they visit and update the index on subsequent visits, I don’t see that working well. If you tried Augur in its early days, one of the main complaints from users was the initial sync time. I don’t know how big these indexes are for YouTube, but given the volume of submissions they have, it must be huge. An app of this scale might need to think of being a next layer on the network, like how lightning network is on Bitcoin. I posted here about an indexing network for Ethereum. It might be worth looking into how that works.
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