This is brilliant. I can't believe I haven't thought of it.
I also recommend Distraction Free YouTube for blocking recommendations and (optionally) comments.
To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
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#42use yandex to search for youtube videos.
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#43All 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.
You can add a playlist to your library and it will show up in the Playlists section. Navigate to the playlist and look for an icon with throw horizontal lines and a check mark.
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#44use yandex to search for youtube videos.
Similar here. I often use Google itself to search for YouTube videos since the results aren't as immediately filled with random nonsense as with YouTube's own search
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#45Earlier 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…
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
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#46Sort by upload date also cuts out semi-related results
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#47Earlier 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".
You're the exception. They naturally do A/B testing and are data-driven to optimize for said objectives.
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#48YouTube'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's KPIs for promoting videos are totally off base in my opinion. They use click through rates and watch time as key indicators, which can easily be manipulated by bots, which is pretty obvious now as rampant on the platform with popular videos showing millions and billions of views, while the majority of posts (from small creators only get 100 or less views over years on the platform.
On YouTube, you get thrown in a trash bin unless you're able to pay or generate traffic from popularity elsewhere.
YT also puts too much emphasis on post titles now, many posters outright clone titles, which in turn botches search results massively. It was a terrible decision YT made to deprioritize taxonomy (hash tags) years ago in order to reduce moderation staff-- Of which, if taxonomy actually worked, feedback could better identify inaccurate and mis-leading content when compared to thumbs down rates... The options for video result sorting have been terribly limited and almost useless as well for ages now.
A big conflict of interest is that YouTube sells and promotes ad-based content boosting to creators, which contradicting-ly makes them more geared towards promoting content that falls under this (paid promotional) category first. It also drives YouTube to lower organic reach for users to drive them towards paying for promotion more year over year... That also encourages the platform to subvert organically good/upvoted content. YT can't logically sell the idea that organic growth is a possibility any more citing the underlying fact that they feature paid promotion without labeling every promoted item of that content as such, it's shocking how they get away with this contradiction of authenticity regularly.
The older engagement methods were far better for YouTube's content quality and authenticity. Now too many users are driven to post repetitive and dragged out videos, with titles based on trends, with decreasing originality and substance.
The current YouTube/TikTok success model is training everyone to conform to a single theme and format, encouraging idea, topic, and content cloning, and into repeating and simply reacting to what popular channels do.
YouTube content will all only continue to get worse and more monotonous if the same ideals on paid promotion continue, and creator success/profit will continue to shrink. (Just my opinion of course).
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#49All I want is to be able to remove channels from my search, similar to removing pinterest from Google search.
BlockTube removes videos based on words in titles and channel names: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocktube/
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#50While 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…
It's so weird to me how hard it is to find this sort of reference information.
I experienced the same thing when looking for a definitive list of voice commands for Android auto.
In the old days we carried around pocket sized cards with the full set of all possible instructions/ parameters.
These days you have to search on Google, and then look at whichever ad-ridden hellhole has played the SEO game most effectively. That might have the answers, or it might be stale since it was originally copied and pasted from some other site long ago.
Why doesn't YouTube provide this information themselves?