I would be curious to know what other advance search type keywords work in YouTube
To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
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#22While 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.
I found this site that has operators you can type in the search bar:
https://seosly.com/youtube-search-operators/
Date operators:
before:[date]
after:[date]
[search term], today
[search term], last hour
[search term], this month
[search term], this year
tesla, before:2019-01-02, after:2019-01-01
Edit: I'm not sure how intuitive the operators are. Ex: Combining them doesn't seem to give the expected results.
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#23All I want is to be able to remove channels from my search, similar to removing pinterest from Google search.
I just checked this works -"channel name" (it only works if the channel name is in quotes)
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#24While 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.
The date range filter of your search engine of choice, combined with 'site:youtube.com'. You also get the other behaviours of that search engine, though Google probably has the most complete index in this case.
I've also tried the 'sort by oldest' programmed Google search that was posted here,[1] but its index seems to be missing many pages—youtube videos with few views in particular—compared to general Google.
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#25While 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.
I found this site that has operators you can type in the search bar: https://seosly.com/youtube-search-operators/ Date operators: before:[date] after:[date] [search term], today [search term], last hour [search term], this month [search term], this year I tried the search: tesla, before:2019-01-02, after:2019-01-01 And it appeared to work like you'd expect. Edit: I'm not sure how intuitive the operators are. Ex: Comb…
believe its your use of commas,
need to use plus "+"
tesla, before:2019-01-02 + after:2019-01-01
i came across another site that had a few more, https://granwehr.com/blog/youtube-search-operators#15-advanc...
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
In my experience, its significantly more aggressive at this than it used to be. The only reason I have a Google/YouTube account in the first place is so I can go to youtube.com and see a list of reasonable interesting videos to watch, based on what I watched before. But in the last few months it keeps pushing more and more "popular" content in there, which is often complete drivel IMHO. I don't even mind if YouTube would show unrelated content, as long as it's interesting, but usually it's not. The entire reason YouTube wins out over regular TV is so I can avoid this kind of stuff.
I've been flagging these things as "not interested" for months now, but it feels like fighting windmills because it has no discernible effect. The effect of all of this is that YouTube is a lot less useful to me than it used to be.
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#27YouTube'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...
Thanks I tried it out and the setting is called "Hide Inapt Search Results" (it's on by default but it also disables recommendations everywhere by default so you might need to disable the other options).
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#28YouTube'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.
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#29Meta: It seems that HN lists the Punycode for this website's domain (xn--1-zfa.com), instead of the actual IDN that's displayed by the browser (ä1.com). This feels kind of odd to me.
[Punycode] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
[IDN] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
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#30All I want is to be able to remove channels from my search, similar to removing pinterest from Google search.
Being able to subscribe to specific playlists and keep specific playlists from your subscriptions would be wondrous. There's a ton of channels I'd like to subscribe to but they just pollute my Subscriptions page too much.