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Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by whilenot-dev »

lelandfe wrote: post #49
thfuran wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google no longer cares much about quotes. Sometimes it’ll take them seriously and sometimes not.

For instance, searching the quoted (random phrase) "pants butler" produces first page results like: "pants,” Butler" and "pants...Butler" and "Pants - Butler's" Second page loses it entirely, with results like "BUTLER SVC Green Back Country Cargo Pants" and another that seemingly lacks "butler" anywhere on the page.

There's a whole list of search operators: https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/#li...

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by Dban1 »

gbro3n wrote: post #112

It's always surprised me that Youtube being owned by the worlds leading search company has such awful on-site search. I've always left Youtube and searched for youtube videos via Google search, which brings up better results!

Hostile engineering

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

tyrust wrote: post #91
wswope wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly the sort of user hostility I’d expect from a google employee. Shameful. Maybe if practical tools such as like-ratios were in place users could sort good content from bad.

Good thing I work on internal infrastructure and not pointing a gun to this guy's head to prevent him from scrolling down past the first three results or refining his query.

There are no results past the first three videos.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by Esn024 »

moralestapia wrote: post #43

YouTube search went to absolute trash, same as Gmail, same as Google the search engine. Many time I search for a video I know the title of, letter by letter, in quotes, and it does not show up (at least in the first 50 or so results). Sometimes I think the video might have been deleted, only to find it out later in my bookmarks and realizing this is not the case. Crazy how them being fundamental to what we all know a…

I often find that using Google Search (the Video tab, with "site:youtube.com") allows me to find videos that don't show up in the YouTube search... or sometimes vice versa!

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by The_Goonies1985 »

gsky wrote: post #27
VenezuelaFree wrote: post #14

Search is the reason I stopped watching youtube, I used to view and discover so many nice stuff in there, tutorials, new hobbies, new music, new creators with different interests, etc but now it's pretty much impossible to find, you are forced to watch the 3 top videos, some 3 ads and then it forces you to watch some other random unrelated crap, it's so annoying and frustrating It got so bad that even searching the f…

on top of that it pushes worst creators (who are the biggest thanks to yt) content.

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Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by dns_snek »

macintux wrote: post #62
owlboy wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They see those hovers as attention. And they likely calculate how long you linger. The lingering tells them a lot when you are infinite scrolling on other platforms. They would love to have full on eye tracking. So the next best thing is a cursor. (Even though I’d agreed with anyone who says it’s a poor signal.)

I’m suddenly grateful that I use my iPad, so they can’t use that signal on me.

They can see how long you stop scrolling, too.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by rhdunn »

danpalmer wrote: post #84

Can anyone describe the problem and use-case in more detail? I've heard this before but it just doesn't resonate at all, and I'm a pretty heavy YouTube user. I mostly watch videos from my home feed or from channels I subscribe to. When I search it's almost always either: - film/game trailers I've heard about and want to find (e.g. gta vi trailer) - videos I've watched before but maybe not liked, with a channel keywor…

Examples:

- `dune book review`

- `sierpinski triangle`

- `full adder` -- better results, but includes an unrelated "previously watched" section

One of the main issues I've encountered is that when searching for something you generally see:

- 7 or so relevant results

- shorts (which I'm not interested in)

- "people also watched" / "previously watched" results -- I'm not interested in that, I just want what I'm looking for

- "channels new to you" -- can include results, so maybe okay

- "explore more" -- mostly irrelevant results to what I'm looking for

- "previously watched" -- may be fine, but mostly unrelated

After the first 7-10 results it generally becomes unusable.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by khana »

VenezuelaFree wrote: post #14

Search is the reason I stopped watching youtube, I used to view and discover so many nice stuff in there, tutorials, new hobbies, new music, new creators with different interests, etc but now it's pretty much impossible to find, you are forced to watch the 3 top videos, some 3 ads and then it forces you to watch some other random unrelated crap, it's so annoying and frustrating It got so bad that even searching the f…

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