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

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Post by zimpenfish »

hackernewds wrote: post #125
timbit42 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BlockTube removes videos based on words in titles and channel names: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocktube/

Don't want to give another extension access to read my screen though. Why do extensions require such broad access? Can't think of this needing anything outside the YouTube domain

> Can't think of this needing anything outside the YouTube domain

Doesn't appear to given the permissions listed:

"Access your data for www.youtube.com"

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

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Post by rsch »

TuringNYC wrote: post #103
maest wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure the YT PMs have proof that this improves engagement. On a similar note, I've started noticing the third video in the "related videos" section on the right-hand sidebar is usually a new video with _extremely_ clickbait and inflammatory titles - sometimes with little connection to the topics I usually watch. They're extremely distracting so I've set up a uBlock filter for these: `www.youtube.com##ytd-compact-v…

>> I'm sure the YT PMs have proof that this improves engagement. ...and it probably does in the short term, as you just try to engage more with the software trying ever harder to find what you want. But probably also kills engagement in the long term. Personal experience with this: Facebook post-2020 vs Facebook pre-2015. Facebook pre-2015 was so magical as I was finally reconnecting with long-lost school friends and…

Yes there was this one day where you open Facebook and literally every other post is Sponsored. And this Reels thing with some random videos from whatever.

But yeah anyway, do you still know people who actually post on Facebook?

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

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Post by aaron695 »

rhacker wrote: post #59

I did a youtube search for: attaching a prehung door and intitle: attaching a prehung door and the results are identical (for me at least). The results are also extremely relevant and concise in showing me how to install a prehung door. I am not really sure what people mean. Are people asking youtube to find videos that don't exist? like "how to make tritan plastic"

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

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Post by sph »

causi wrote: post #28
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.

Don't forget how you get five or six results from your search term before it starts listing random videos like it has ADHD.

I have a curated home page of videos, yet I could search for "WW2 documentary" and YouTube will intersperse after the 5th result some trending video about the Kardashians.

Search has become one of the most dysfunctional features in Google products. I am extremely annoyed that I am paying for YouTube Premium, I might just pull the plug and install a network-wide ad blocker system so I can vote with my wallet.

God, I hate modern Google.

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

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Post by sph »

behnamoh wrote: post #95
maest wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure the YT PMs have proof that this improves engagement. On a similar note, I've started noticing the third video in the "related videos" section on the right-hand sidebar is usually a new video with _extremely_ clickbait and inflammatory titles - sometimes with little connection to the topics I usually watch. They're extremely distracting so I've set up a uBlock filter for these: `www.youtube.com##ytd-compact-v…

F*k such PMs, seriously. With all the anti-pattern behavior I see from different companies, these PMs shouldn't stay in their job for more than a day. Let a senior engineer with domain expertise take the position.

As if the company-wide engagement focus doesn't come from the very top.

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

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Post by davidatbu »

throwntoday wrote: post #104
Gigachad wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN will often claim something is unusable and not what it used to be when the general public is quite happy with it and its working very well. I think it's more a bias against the wider product or company. HN users do not like YouTube and Google in general so any minor issue gets overblown while they would be quite happy to compile a new kernel to get PeerTube running.

It's not a conspiracy that Google/Youtube search have degraded to near unusable for niche searches. All I can say is that you're probably not searching for anything too specific.

Do you have any data to back up the claim that Youtube search has deteriorated a lot? (The phrase "it's no conspiracy" implies to me that it's some obvious, or widely-agreed-upon, truth).

Anecdotally, I absolutely love youtube search.

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

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Post by trentgreene »

rsch wrote: post #142
TuringNYC wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> I'm sure the YT PMs have proof that this improves engagement. ...and it probably does in the short term, as you just try to engage more with the software trying ever harder to find what you want. But probably also kills engagement in the long term. Personal experience with this: Facebook post-2020 vs Facebook pre-2015. Facebook pre-2015 was so magical as I was finally reconnecting with long-lost school friends and…

Yes there was this one day where you open Facebook and literally every other post is Sponsored. And this Reels thing with some random videos from whatever. But yeah anyway, do you still know people who actually post on Facebook?

No, but I kind of miss it. My Facebook years were roughly 2008-2011, and they were magical. You’d talk with your friends in a fun, async, low stress manner, look at funny posts, hear about shitty but fun local shows, post literally random bs you were thinking. And people you know would really engage, Unironically and in good faith. I don’t remember a lot of clout farming in those days (MySpace had a decent amount, so I’m sure it existed).

I don’t think any other social media came close to how purely good Facebook was in its golden years. I’d love for someone to write a book on how it declined.

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

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Post by Akronymus »

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.

What? Next you're gonna tell me you dislike auto translations of video titles?

(I seeming can't completely disable that annoying "feature")

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