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

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Post by bonoboTP »

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…

Nowadays if I want to see videos on a certain topic (not searching for a specific video), I usually ask an AI assistant. It uses web search with multiple related phrases and then picks the relevant ones out. I find this to be very effective right now, but of course in the future they could enshittify these assistants too.

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

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Post by eager_learner »

adito wrote: post #65
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…

What got me really mad is searching your own history. There's this "search watch history" on the https://www.youtube.com/feed/history I remember watching video that contains certain word in the title. A minecraft contraption from a small channel (4 videos, 93 subs). I searched that word in the title. But youtube can't find it. Fortunately, I saved the world download that listed in the video with the name of the chann…

Amazon is the same now. I can't find books on it that I know for sure exist on it. It always pushes something else first.

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

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Post by QuantumNomad_ »

john01dav wrote: post #63
QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was curious after reading your comment and searched for sanic meme tshirt in the YouTube app. One result looked highly relevant, posted 4 days ago. It was a short, not a normal video mind you. Titled Official “Sanic” merchandise and having a picture of sanic and some dude’s face. Most of the rest of the results were from different dates, several ranging to years ago. But a lot of those other ones seemed to be about…

I just put this into YouTube search and got results that contraindicate your claim¹: > "sanic" the hedgehog The quotes seem to shut down autocorrect 1: there's nothing that I see about the T-shirt, but the first result is titled "Sanic DA hedgeh0g". I will not be looking at what this video is. Several other results also include the word "sanic" in relation to the hedgehog.

Did you mean to respond to one of the sibling comments that are talking about autocorrect? I don’t understand what would be contradictory between what I said and what you said.

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

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Post by eMPee584 »

ssl-3 wrote: post #100
thfuran wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Indeed. Just last night, I wanted to find some antonyms of a word. So I did what I've done for decades and simply Googled that. It insisted that I meant synonym , not antonym. Let that sink in for a moment. Irrevocably substituting the antonym of antonym is the most balls-up, backwards, paradoxical "I'm from Google, and I'm here to help!" thing I can imagine happening to one word. The quotes did nothing. The search r…

There's another more hidden tool avail: right of the search type bar (images/news/books) there is a "search tools" menu where you can open "all results" and switch it to "verbatim". Often times a good way to see another defunct relict of old, quality google: the empty-result-troll that would once upon a time pull out his fishing rod on click..

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

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Post by stuffoverflow »

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…

For me the problem is usually finding older videos. Youtube's search heavily favors newer videos to the point of completely hiding older ones even if using the exact video title. They've also removed the possibility of sorting results by date somewhere within last 6 months.

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

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Post by gbro3n »

Dban1 wrote: post #113
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

Maybe, I'm not clear what the goal is though.

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

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Post by 01jonny01 »

ddtaylor wrote: post #15

If anyone has a good solution to YouTube destroying all value of the Subscriptions page I am open ears. Until recently my consumption of YT was basically to go to my subscriptions page and see what new content had been released since I last watched YT.

Skipvids.com recreates the old youtube subscription page experience pretty well.

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

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Post by pbasista »

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…

> forced to watch ... 3 ads

There are very efficient ways to block all ads, including YouTube ads. uBlock Origin browser extension is one of them. SponsorBlock browser extension would also skip over in-video ads.

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

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Post by 01jonny01 »

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…

Try skipvids search it removes all the noise, including shorts and ai slop
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