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

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Post by a96 »

tcherasaro wrote: post #68

Potentially unpopular idea: Maybe YouTube search is so bad because videos are poorly optimized for search. Today most of the emphasis to creators on YouTube is to create content that targets browse traffic and shorts to go viral and get millions of views. Not so much videos targeting specific user intent with a term that might get 2k views per month if it ranks #1.

That also doesn't explain why it was better and why it's been getting worse all the time. Also, just a simple text search in the titles would be much better, let alone all the text data that YT has on the videos. Even with keyword spam, that seems like a very simple task to get close to right. Once upon a time it might have even been there.

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

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Post by infecto »

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…

Search and recommendations is terrible. It’s a classic example of what’s wrong at Google.

I used to love watching recommended videos at the end of a video. They were always focused on some extension of the current video watched. Now it’s slop trying to peddle stuff I don’t watch or YouTube shorts. Same with search. It is so terrible, you get maybe 2-4 relevant results and then it again weights all the YouTube slop.

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

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Post by nonethewiser »

Alifatisk wrote: post #153

I feel like we have reached a point where Youtube can just remove the search fields and let their algorithms do its thing. The last time I tried YTs search field was when I was trying to find an older video in my history. Nothing, even if I typed down the exact keywords. Nothing. Luckily, I found it through myactivity.google.com. Its actually kind of fascinating how a huge enterprise like Youtube can ruin a feature t…

> I feel like we have reached a point where Youtube can just remove the search fields and let their algorithms do its thing.

> The last time I tried YTs search field was when I was trying to find an older video in my history. Nothing, even if I typed down the exact keywords. Nothing. Luckily, I found it through myactivity.google.com.

I have had a similar experience but it seems ridiculous to propose removing the search. It's not like its returning random results. It does generally work, even with the major failure points you describe.

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

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Post by nonethewiser »

loveparade wrote: post #17

The whole Youtube experience has gotten so bad over the years. I love the youtube content, but I wish I didn't have to deal with the UI/UX and recommendations that the YT app forces on me. Annoying Shorts. I'm trying to keep my watch history clean to "steer" recommendations, but YT keeps adding things to it that I didn't actually watch just because I happened to hover my mouse over a video, etc.

Why does opening the youtube app sometimes just go straight into a short?

I mean, i know why it does that. Engagement. But I mean what governs it? Just a percent chance? If you havent watched any shorts in a while?

Definitely another example of the shit UI/UX you speak of.

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

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Post by nonethewiser »

rhdunn wrote: post #119
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…

I just did the first one (`dune book review`) and the results were good. Like 12 relevant results, 5 shorts in one row (also relevant), followed by many more relevant results.

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

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Post by nonethewiser »

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.

>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.

What is your subscription page now?

I just checked mine and its just an ordered list of videos from channels I subscribe to ordered by most recent.

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

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Post by Gander5739 »

mister_mort wrote: post #163
Gander5739 wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A tangent, but this is the second time in two days I've seen the word spelled "often times" instead of "oftentimes". Is this some variant spelling I don't know of? I see it more than "oftentimes" now, which I was hitherto convinced was the only correct spelling.

I've never seen it spelled as "oftentimes".

But as far as I can determine, often times is a misspelling of oftentimes.

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

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Post by prophesi »

tredre3 wrote: post #80
prophesi wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You're literally just adding extra parameters to the search request > Saw more options looking for Firefox extensions than Chrome for this, though that might be expected. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough in my comment that it's a very trivial feature. Would you want a lmgtfy link instead? edit: The irony that this very submission is probably AI generated? There's no link to their source code, and there's a tab titled…

I think there's been a break in this conversation somewhere. You said: One of the first things I do on a new device is install an extension to expose these hidden filters Someone asked you to name the extension. Then you go on saying it's easy to vibe code and you're not here to hold hands? Okay, so does the extension exist or not?

Yes, there are plenty of them.

I think you heard "vibe-code" and immediately went out of your way to act obtuse, even though I was using it as an example of how simple it is to show these "hidden" filters.

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