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

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Post by tyrust »

wswope wrote: post #58
tyrust wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 Brother, you are the one choosing the videos.

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.

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

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Post by el_io »

maxxmod wrote: post #79
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…

It doesn’t solve all the issues you mention, but YouTube Search Fixer [1] [2] is a browser extension that at least lets you remove irrelevant results, Shorts, live streams, and more from search. It makes results a bit more usable. Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with YouTube Search Fixer. I’m currently working on https://maxxmod.com , a YouTube-focused browser extension that will include search improvements, so I’ve r…

YouTube search filter is godsend.

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

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Post by carefree-bob »

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…

It works pretty well for me, but my searches are mostly automotive youtube or some tech stuff.

So if I want to know how to replace the water pump on my car, I type in the make and model and "water pump" and I usually find what I am looking for fairly easily.

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

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Post by KevinMS »

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…

I'm a heavy YT user and I don't have a problem either. I'm not sure what everybody is complaining about. Maybe its because I don't search on super specific things because I'm just looking for a larger topic, and I'm not sure if its actually returning all the best results because I don't know what it has to give me.

All this tool does is use YT search but makes it easier to include existing search switches to get more specific. (which I had forgotten about and I'm grateful the tool reminded me of them.

Really, if there's a problem, its not the search itself but how it prioritizes the search without the switches.

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

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Post by GeoSys »

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…

They want to push down you throat whatever their algo decides.

What sort of API do you use to search?

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

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Post by kalleboo »

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…

Google.com is a lot better at searching YouTube than YouTube is at searching YouTube

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

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Post by Chaosvex »

tyrust wrote: post #51
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…

> 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 Brother, you are the one choosing the videos.

Nah, YouTube is absolutely shoving slop at users. They recently removed some of the search filters such as sorting by date, just to make it a little bit harder to find anything.

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

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Post by ssl-3 »

thfuran wrote: post #21
msephton wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just put the term in quotes "sanic the hedgeheg" ignore the suggestions and press enter to see the real results.

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 results were all for synonyms, with the word synonym bolded in each excerpt.

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(Hey, Google: It's fine to present to the user a suggestion, or a correction. I can even work with a system that assumes a correction is good and uses it on the first pass -- I might not like the extra step, but I'll get over it. Sometimes, that's actually useful.

But when your systems present a line that asks "Did you mean 'synonym'?" and then offers no option for the user to -- you know -- actually answer that question and reject the correction, then that's not good.

In fact, some descriptors that come to mind before "not good" in this context are "callous," "insulting," "recalcitrant," and "sadistic.")

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