As you may know, Googles Matt Cutts frequently answers user questions by posting videos to the Google Webmaster Central YouTube channel, and the latest one he tackled has to do with videos ranking for universal search on Google.

Here is the question that Cutts receivedWhat factors influence a video universal result in Google? I have the same video one on YouTube with high views, comments and ratings, yet the other one with low views and no comments is the one that ranks why is this? Cutts says that his first guess without knowing the specifics is that maybe the ranking video received links from a very reputable site, so it has more pagerank.We still do look at links.