> in favour of perhaps some kind of category- or tag-based search Because the people looking for visibility on their conspiracy video would never tag their vid

> in favour of perhaps some kind of category- or tag-based search Because the people looking for visibility on their conspiracy video would never tag their video with high-visibility keywords like "cute" and "puppies"! Dumb metadata-based search and content recommendation is not the way forward. Google's original contribution to the web was pulling us out of that tarpit - SEO prior to PageRank was a wreck.