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Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

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Post by davisoneee »

post_break wrote: post #6

All I want is to be able to remove channels from my search, similar to removing pinterest from Google search.

For firefox users:

Extension [1] gives a little 'X' beside the channel name in home and search, that can be used to completely remove that channel from all future searches.

Similarly, remove a bunch of random distracting crap[2] such as 'related results'.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/youtube-clean...

[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

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Post by davisoneee »

slig wrote: post #7

YouTube's search is horrible. No, I don't want "related results" that are completely unrelated to my query, neither results from my country when I specifically type in English and my whole UI is in English and I never watch non-English content while logged in.

Firefox plugin to remove distracting crap[2] such as 'related results' on search pages.

[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

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Post by BuyMyBitcoins »

thomassmith65 wrote: post #3

If I had a magic wand, I'd create a non-profit, funded by the world's governments, to host the bulk of the world's videos. Wojcicki's Youtube doesn't care if when a user browses the site, it's like wading through a sea of garbage, as long as the user browses for as many hours as possible.

Browsing YouTube without an AdBlocker and cosmetic filters that hide emblems and badges on the video player is truly shocking. I really sense the goal of YouTube isn’t to get you to watch something, it’s to get you to watch something else - at all times.

I’ve seen it recommend related videos as soon as the video starts playing. It will recommend videos as soon as you click pause. There will be little interstitial recommendation overlays as it plays. How desperate must product managers at YouTube be to push this so strongly?

Thankfully I crafted some filters to hide all of this, but it’s so user hostile that I feel bad for anyone that doesn’t know how to get rid of all this noise.

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

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Post by jjoonathan »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #10

This is great. Lately I've been learning to play traditional Irish music. Often I'll want to hear as many versions of a tune as I can; don't care if it's studio musicians, a session at a bar, or a few mates in their kitchen, as long as it includes the specified tune. What will often happen if I search, for example, "Monaghan Jig," is that I'll get a few results from famous albums and professional YouTube content crea…

I'm just glad that there's still an operator that isn't just ignored.

I half suspect that this is a mistake and youtube will correct it quickly once word spreads.

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

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Post by bdowling »

slig wrote: post #7

YouTube's search is horrible. No, I don't want "related results" that are completely unrelated to my query, neither results from my country when I specifically type in English and my whole UI is in English and I never watch non-English content while logged in.

YouTube’s search is carefully optimized to keep viewers watching video after video, and ad after ad, for as long as possible. That’s why the search returns popular videos, ones that suck in viewers, rather than ones that match your search terms.

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

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Post by doliveira »

bdowling wrote: post #15
slig wrote: post #7

YouTube's search is horrible. No, I don't want "related results" that are completely unrelated to my query, neither results from my country when I specifically type in English and my whole UI is in English and I never watch non-English content while logged in.

YouTube’s search is carefully optimized to keep viewers watching video after video, and ad after ad, for as long as possible. That’s why the search returns popular videos, ones that suck in viewers, rather than ones that match your search terms.

I'm actually finding myself watching YouTube less and less because of this. If we were to anthropomorphize the AI, I'd say it's trying pretty desperately to bring me to a "popular cluster".

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

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Post by jjoonathan »

bdowling wrote: post #15
slig wrote: post #7

YouTube's search is horrible. No, I don't want "related results" that are completely unrelated to my query, neither results from my country when I specifically type in English and my whole UI is in English and I never watch non-English content while logged in.

YouTube’s search is carefully optimized to keep viewers watching video after video, and ad after ad, for as long as possible. That’s why the search returns popular videos, ones that suck in viewers, rather than ones that match your search terms.

> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.

-Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

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Post by jbay808 »

While we're here, does YouTube search support date range specifiers? I sometimes want to find a video I remember being published in, say, 2014, but the title might be hard to search for or get buried under similar names. YouTube's UI filters only let me limit to some hard-coded ranges, all of which prioritize recent videos.
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