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Life hack, maybe it will help someone out: Add a "before:YYYY" to the search to go back to a simpler time. Eg, "before:2012 python talk" As an experiment open two tabs and compare the results of "python talk" and "before:2012 python talk". The difference is staggering.
Everytime I use youtube search now I'm getting disgusting, sexualized recs when I search for a specific topic that is completely unrelated to that crap. I cannot even block these recommendations from the search result list, I cannot block these channels. Youtube/Google have simply become insane. You're at work, looking for some Youtube coding tutorial, and you get some video with a sexual thumbnail, or something abou…
You know what else bothers me. If I hover over a thumbnail for a video, that now counts as a view and gets added to my history. Clogging up my feed with more algorithmic horseshit I don't want to watch. I'm thinking of just using nebula because I mostly watch science videos and I'm tired of the algo inserting shit I'm not the least bit interested in.
Needless to say ten minutes of absentmindedly scrolling ruins your suggested results for a long time
youtube needs a competitor. i hate their products, i hate youtube music more. but i can't use something else.
YouTube has competitors, but none of them are very serious about the job. They're just kind of vibing in slightly-adjacent niches, afraid to take a bite at the top dog.
Bandwidth isn't cheap, storage is a bucket load and than moderation & copyright. Let alone any other issues.
So this doesn't even seem like an issue with search "quality" in a product sense -- it seems like something is actually deeply broken with YouTube search. This is a straight-up bug. For those not watching the video, he's searching for "games that think more gameplay mechanics equals more fun" (not in quotes) which you can see the results of: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=games+that+thin... He expects i…
It might have been Christchurch mosque shooting videos.
you get what you pay for, right folks? surely with a youtube premium account you get the premium search experience.
The most frustrating thing about youtube is how it's not smart enough to figure out that I want to watch "XX Part 55" after watching "XX Part 54". It just gives me random other videos on autoplay.
Absolutely -- this seriously seems like it should have been fixed years ago. And it's not like you need fancy AI to do it. Just a handful of simple heuristics.
you get what you pay for, right folks? surely with a youtube premium account you get the premium search experience.
YT search results also show results that have literally nothing to do with the query. Stop showing me videos I watched previously when I'm literally in the midst of trying to find something specific.