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Absolutely, Wikipedia is my go-to for general information. Wikipedia doesn't answer questions like "how do I disable web searching in Windows 10 search," though

Absolutely, Wikipedia is my go-to for general information. Wikipedia doesn't answer questions like "how do I disable web searching in Windows 10 search," though. It used to be that googling simple technical questions would return a concise blog/forum post, but it's increasingly likely that all the top results will be videos.

dylan604 8y ago
Google promoting videos hosted on a Google owned site that can earn them more money in ad sales over other relevant sites? Say it ain’t so! After removing my tounge from cheek, this is an extremely annoying daily thing I have to deal with as well. I do searches expecting to quickly scan for the answer I need, but get results where the same text information has been converted to a video format. I can’t copy/paste text from a video.
- josho 8y ago
  I fully expect that in the next few years google will come out with some new innovation to convert these youtube videos into transcribed web pages complete with relevant photos taken from the video. Of course this will put video revenue at risk so will have to wait until some form of premium content business model takes off--maybe that already exists with youtube premium.
kilo_bravo_3 8y ago
The top result for "how do I disable web searching in Windows 10 search," in Google is a snippet with step-by-step instructions on how to do that. Duckduckgo, too. https://i.imgur.com/0fv9ZuD.png https://i.imgur.com/0fv9ZuD.png If you are seeing video links in Google it may be because you have favored those results in the past and big-G is showing you more of those because it thinks that you prefer them.
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago
  That was a random example of a technical question, since it seemed like people didn't understand what kind of info I was searching for. I don't recall offhand any of the questions that I couldn't find non-video results for.

dylan604 8y ago

Google promoting videos hosted on a Google owned site that can earn them more money in ad sales over other relevant sites? Say it ain’t so! After removing my tounge from cheek, this is an extremely annoying daily thing I have to deal with as well. I do searches expecting to quickly scan for the answer I need, but get results where the same text information has been converted to a video format. I can’t copy/paste text from a video.

josho 8y ago
I fully expect that in the next few years google will come out with some new innovation to convert these youtube videos into transcribed web pages complete with relevant photos taken from the video. Of course this will put video revenue at risk so will have to wait until some form of premium content business model takes off--maybe that already exists with youtube premium.

kilo_bravo_3 8y ago

The top result for "how do I disable web searching in Windows 10 search," in Google is a snippet with step-by-step instructions on how to do that. Duckduckgo, too. https://i.imgur.com/0fv9ZuD.png https://i.imgur.com/0fv9ZuD.png If you are seeing video links in Google it may be because you have favored those results in the past and big-G is showing you more of those because it thinks that you prefer them.

PhasmaFelis 8y ago
That was a random example of a technical question, since it seemed like people didn't understand what kind of info I was searching for. I don't recall offhand any of the questions that I couldn't find non-video results for.