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

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Post by v3v3 »

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.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/For you/)
    youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/New for you/)
    youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/People also watched/)
    youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/Previously watched/)
    youtube.com##ytd-horizontal-card-list-renderer:has-text(/People also search for/)

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

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Post by dncornholio »

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.

It's better for YouTube to show you videos that make them money instead of showing you results that you actually looked for.

Youtube is starting to become more like television, or Netflix.

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

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Post by baxuz »

synaesthesisx wrote: post #139

To improve search results on Google, append site:reddit.com to your query :)

Google's search is amazingly stupid as of late.

For the query "monkeypox gym" I'm getting COVID-19 results.

For the query "social network without kids" I'm getting results for social networks aimed at kids.

For the query "cakes without strawberries" I'm getting... This: https://imgur.com/a/Os1kkcP

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

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Post by RugnirViking »

baxuz wrote: post #163
synaesthesisx wrote: post #139

To improve search results on Google, append site:reddit.com to your query :)

Google's search is amazingly stupid as of late. For the query "monkeypox gym" I'm getting COVID-19 results. For the query "social network without kids" I'm getting results for social networks aimed at kids. For the query "cakes without strawberries" I'm getting... This: https://imgur.com/a/Os1kkcP

while those are pretty ridiculous examples that google should definately handle better, the cake one can be effectively done as

"cakes -strawberries"

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

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Post by raghavbali »

pjbeam wrote: post #108
ithinkso wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm sure the YT PMs have proof that this improves engagement. I sometimes wonder if the opposite is true - that the PMs can convince the upper managment that users are staying on the website longer with all those stupid as fuck shit changes, but in reality they are there longer because it's increasingly more difficult to find anything you are looking for Sort of 'When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a g…

Successfully being a PM and successfully managing a product are often at odds with each other. I've seen few do it well. Not really picking on PMs either, as both an SDE and now an EM I deal with similar tensions. Gotta love corpo life.

Could you elaborate that a bit more on this? I am on SDE side and keen on understanding the PM motivations as well

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

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Post by corobo »

mtoner23 wrote: post #68
toxik wrote: post #62

Is it possible to build a third party YouTube search by scraping a) YouTube and b) the user’s watch history? To me it seems like there’s some mid-to-low hanging fruit there. YT’s recommender fails to understand when a video is part of a series so often I almost have to think it’s intentional. Also recommending videos I’ve already watched in my homepage feed? What? What bugs me the most is that it wasn’t always this b…

Certaily gotta be against youtube's TOS and it'll get shut down

Yup. You're allowed to cache for a short while but you're not allowed to store and serve

source: My YouTube API key was blocked for this sort of thing shortly after GDPR came into effect

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

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Post by maest »

3np wrote: post #124
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…

Do you notice if being signed in affects this? Just set out to try it (not signed in) from the first video that came up when I searched "Linux" and kept clicking the third video wondering how long until I get to Hitler. Never got there. After a brief detour in some Greek channels I can't comment on, I ended up in a seemingly endless loop of mindfully woke TEDx talks (as in, no political or inflammatory stuff, just di…

Good point re being signed in.

Logged in:

Watching RedLetterMedia video, get recommended a clickbaity video about comic books: https://postimg.cc/QVkc7QwQ

Watching Colombo snippets, get recommended some celeb Net Worth trashy video: https://postimg.cc/grRNTL5j

Climate Town links to some unrelated video about Orlando amusement parks: https://postimg.cc/jW0zNMxh

These are way milder than I remember, btw.

Logged out, no weird recommendations:

https://postimg.cc/gnLXD3Bt

https://postimg.cc/DJDfJMFv

So yeah, logged out doesn't have that 3rd obnoxious video, which is kind of interesting.

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

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Post by baxuz »

RugnirViking wrote: post #164
baxuz wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google's search is amazingly stupid as of late. For the query "monkeypox gym" I'm getting COVID-19 results. For the query "social network without kids" I'm getting results for social networks aimed at kids. For the query "cakes without strawberries" I'm getting... This: https://imgur.com/a/Os1kkcP

while those are pretty ridiculous examples that google should definately handle better, the cake one can be effectively done as "cakes -strawberries"

Kinda. This was an example I made up on the fly, but sometimes you don't just want to exclude a term from the search, but you want to see it explicitly semantically excluded in the document.

Eg, "js without transpilation" gives quality results, but often times, especially when it's dealing with more popular search queries, it just kinda focuses on the keywords without any context.

For the search "social media without kids" I was actually looking for some articles that would focus on how the content changes depending on the age group. Or articles about social media focused on "adult things" like HN.

What I got was https://imgur.com/a/0tt8g4r

And I won't even get started on the blog spam content aggregate sites which seem to be over half of the results.

Google seriously needs to find a way out of this mess.

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

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Post by causi »

sph wrote: post #144
causi wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 h…

Network blocking won't help much with the drivel. I suggest using Vanced for your phones/computers and SmartTube for your TV. Auto-skipping sponsored segments, intros, and filler is a real game-changer.
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