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

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

account42 wrote: post #180
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.

> 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…

www.google.com/ncr (No Country Redirect)

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

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Post by account42 »

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #181
account42 wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

www.google.com/ncr (No Country Redirect)

That doesn't change anything here.

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

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Post by michaelcampbell »

maest wrote: post #37
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'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…

> with _extremely_ clickbait and inflammatory titles

A number of YT'ers I follow have mentioned this is basically required now for any sort of rankings.

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

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Post by matbatt38 »

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…

https://github.com/tournesol-app/

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

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Post by niutech »

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.

You can use Google search instead: https://www.google.com/search?q=whatever&tbm=vid&lr=lang_en&...

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

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Post by henriquecm8 »

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"

You are right, but even if it's simple, it's not something the average user will know.
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