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

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Post by daniel-cussen »

Beltalowda wrote: post #26
doliveira wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 w…

I don't watch interesting videos anymore.

Too interesting, too holy shit wow can't believe that, wow. Like sometimes an EE thing yes, then it makes sense, basically a guy talking about an oscilloscope or television then it's part of the show to use a television to talk about it. And only when they link to it externally.

But interesting for its own sake? Rather talk to the men on the street, those guys are interesting, have great stories.

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

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Post by judge2020 »

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

Might be related to some local law or simply pressure from lawmakers, eg Canada is experimenting with such a law: https://www.medianama.com/2022/06/223-canada-bill-streaming-...

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

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Post by mbirth »

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…

Invidious was such project, IIRC.

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

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Post by mbirth »

rhacker wrote: post #59

I did a youtube search for: attaching a prehung door and intitle: attaching a prehung door and the results are identical (for me at least). The results are also extremely relevant and concise in showing me how to install a prehung door. I am not really sure what people mean. Are people asking youtube to find videos that don't exist? like "how to make tritan plastic"

If it works anything like with the plain Google search, the modifier only applies to text directly following the colon.

E.g.:

  intitle:door
will find all videos with "door" in their title.

  intitle:"prehung door"
will find all videos where these two words in exactly that order are mentioned in the title.

So to have it search for all words in the title, you'd have to do a search for:

  intitle:attaching intitle:a intitle:prehung intitle:door

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

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Post by pigtailgirl »

-- often read a lot of complaints about youtube search, a gentle reminder of the scale: "YouTube hosts over 800 million videos among 37 million channels on the platform. 1 billion videos are watched per day on YouTube by its over 2 billion users." - it's a wonder youtube isn't serving up vast amounts of junk in search - using the filters they provide I'm always able to find multiple decent videos about whatever I'm looking for - out of 800 million - not awful imo --

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

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Post by hwers »

post_break wrote: post #70
savanaly wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not directly available in search but from the home page you can click the triple dot menu and click Don't recommend channel.

That doesn't remove a channel from search unfortunately.

I don’t even think it blocks the channel long term from your recommendations. I’m pretty sure they’ve tried to sneak in an old channel I’ve explicitly said not to recommend again in my recommendations via whatever multi armed bandit with noise algo they’re running.
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