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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.
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Reminds me of that scene from The Office (US) where Phyllis is calling 411 to inquire about anti-gravity machines and they ask if she'll settle for... well just watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG1NeA3WoKc
She was so perfectly cast as Sadness. Hope that actress is actually happy but she does depressed so well!
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I have searched for specific things a lot. Usually I just search what I remember being in the video rather than what I thought the title was. The right video comes up even when the words I search did not show up in the title or description. Google's ability to search is only just short of being magic. Meanwhile, the products which HN promotes regularly like Mastodon and PeerTube fail to find things with directly sear…
I'll give you an example. I was recently searching for an old blog post I read about a guy who installed fiber at his home. No amount of specific or vague search terms on google would yield anything but endless pages of results that were either blogspam or ISP product pages for fiber internet. Surely google doesn't think an ISP in Australia offering fiber is relevant enough to an SF resident that it should be on the…
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Or FreeTube
Or Vanced https://old.reddit.com/r/Vanced/comments/tdzmgw/other_how_to...
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> 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…
Yes, like the way modern shopping centres seem to be designed to disorient.
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.
How I make youtube bearable: - subscribe through RSS only - block all 'related videos' boxes with the picker tool from ublock
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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'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…
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Yes, like the way modern shopping centres seem to be designed to disorient.
Not to disorient, but to force you travel past most isles, increasing the chance of impulse buys.
This mind trick is called the Gruen transfer.
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.
Google in general is annoyingly insistent in localizing results. It used to be that google.com gave you english results and you would go to google.ccTLD to get a local experience. Then they changed it to google.com being localized by default (even though my browser is set to english) but you could click a link to go back to the english version from the home page. Now they even hide that link when you go the the home page via the google logo (why????) and you have to explicitly go to google.com/ without a hl query parameter. And of course the english results are still localized somewhat (e.g. it'll show the local Wikipedia anlong with the english one, even for articles that have fuck all to do with location).