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

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Post by foerbert »

jjoonathan wrote: post #64
Beltalowda wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Last week youtube decided to start pushing pus / pimple popping videos, and push them hard. I've never shown interest, this was purely the algorithm's idea. Gross. I had to install an extension to get it to stop because "Not Interested" and "Don't Recommend Channel" don't work in search results, even though they are turning search results into just another front page :/

Which extension did you use for this?

I basically use YouTube only without logging in, and rely a lot on the front page for my current interests (channels I want to remember long-term go in my RSS reader). It seems like YouTube always has a channel or two it insists on pushing repeatedly no matter how often I ignore their videos.

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

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

pigtailgirl wrote: post #89

-- 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 l…

Like literally google owns youtube and it has something like 100 times that scale. Text searching on 800m strings is a solved problem.

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

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Post by Gigachad »

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"

HN will often claim something is unusable and not what it used to be when the general public is quite happy with it and its working very well. I think it's more a bias against the wider product or company. HN users do not like YouTube and Google in general so any minor issue gets overblown while they would be quite happy to compile a new kernel to get PeerTube running.

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

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

causi wrote: post #28
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.

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 always thought I landed in some weird A/B test variant, but damn is it global? This sounds... wrong.

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

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Post by behnamoh »

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…

F*k such PMs, seriously. With all the anti-pattern behavior I see from different companies, these PMs shouldn't stay in their job for more than a day. Let a senior engineer with domain expertise take the position.

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

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Post by Gigachad »

clircle wrote: post #19

All search engines are bad now because search engines have turned into recommendation engines in the past 5-10 years.

Every time I have specifically searched for something on youtube I have found it. But most of the time on youtube I don't actually have something specific in mind. I'm just looking for something interesting or educational and I want suggestions.

I think they have been able to strike a really good balance between the use cases of directed searching and undirected consumption.

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

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Post by BarryMilo »

MWil wrote: post #45
maest wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

She was so perfectly cast as Sadness. Hope that actress is actually happy but she does depressed so well!

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

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Post by allenu »

causi wrote: post #28
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.

Don't forget how you get five or six results from your search term before it starts listing random videos like it has ADHD.

It's frustrating that searches are now "whatever we want to promote to you" instead of real searches.

Something similar happens on Twitter when you search for something in the "Top" tab. It doesn't show you results with your search terms. Instead, it shows something peripherally related to what you searched, but much more popular and engaging.

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

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Post by pgreenwood »

ithinkso wrote: post #76
maest wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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.
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