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How Do I Get Rid of Search Results from India?
- awiesenhofer 7y agoI noticed this too the other way round: as a german native speaker i notice more and more videos in youtubes recommendations that are just popular english videos with german titles. i somehow always assumed these are automatic translations from youtube itself.
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- EdwardDiego 7y agoMy kids got deep into the weird kids bit of YouTube where Filipinos or Vietnamese kids are acting out skits in English, but the titles are in German or Turkish or Urdu. I'd always figured it was an attempt at Youtube SEO - matching keywords in different languages with the same content.
- LeonM 7y agoYes, these are automatically translated by YT. I'm seeing a lot of video titles that have suddenly been translated to Dutch when I log in. I find this very annoying and have been looking how to turn it off, but couldn't find it. In my observation not all videos have translated titles, I'd say about 20~30%. So my theory is that it is either some A/B test from YT, or that the channel owner can opt in/out of the automatic translations.
- kumpelblase2 7y agoThe only way I've managed to turn it off is by changing the language of youtube to be English (I've had it in my native language before).
- jvzr 7y agoI'm French but have everything in English (system, browser & YouTube). I've seen a lot of French YouTube videos with their title auto-translated in English a couple of weeks after their diffusion. (Bad for two reasons: (1) badly translated titles, sometimes hilariously so, and (2) the algorithm recommends me videos I have already watched. I guess (2) is because I don't usually watch the last 20 seconds, the static "my last video was", whatever it's called, so YouTube must think I haven't watched the video. Most times, the red gauge below the video thumbnail shows half-full even though I've watched the video minus these 20 seconds. There's still room for improvements...)
- Grue3 7y agoThey are not automatically translated. The owner of the video has chosen to translate the title in several languages. For example this channel uses this feature [1]. The English titles are almost always "Sharpest * kitchen knife in the world". The original Japanese titles are more creative, usually something like "I tried to <do something>" and rarely mention knives at all. [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3qsVzHeUt5_cPpcRtoaJQ/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3qsVzHeUt5_cPpcRtoaJQ/vid...
- mcphage 7y agoThe English titles really aren't all that great, but those videos themselves are really cool.
- hackerbabz 7y agoI’ve never had this happen to me. How common is it?
- kranner 7y agoFrom one of the comments, it is interesting how "-HINDI" in the search string does seem to eliminate most Indian videos (even ones in other Indian languages like Tamil) where "HINDI" does not seem to be present in the video description. Looks like a real market need here, although maybe limited to videos in a particular segment (I searched for "Angular tutorial" for this example), because somehow I don't get these Indian hits at all -- despite being Indian and living in India.
- CiPHPerCoder 7y agoThe comments in that discussion seem a bit xenophobic. There is value in being able to reliably filter by language. After all, if you can't understand a lecture video, then there's little point in watching it. But how some of the commenters choose to express their thoughts comes across more as "I hate people from India" than "This is inconvenient".
- OldGuyInTheClub 7y agoYeah, the hate flows strongly doesn't it? But, the BlockTube extension from Chrome can be configured to hide channels/videos based on Unicode regexps. An equally honked off YT user asked about this problem on the project's Github page and got some suggestions. https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube/issues/38 https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube/issues/38
- aviraldg 7y agoRather amusingly, the author of the project appears to be of Indian origin (based on the username)
- OldGuyInTheClub 7y agoYes, I wondered if s/he is. Measured response, if so. It's a good extension and works well in combination with uBlock Origin to curb some of YT's excesses. The latest redesign makes life more difficult, though. Previously there were ways to block categories. Now, everything blends together and when the blocklists get large, pages get sluggish (as is to be expected.)
- fellellor 7y agoThanks for the link. A lot of helpful stuff on that page.
- OldGuyInTheClub 7y agoNo problem. As a person of Indian origin, I feel somewhat guilty for glomming my own filtering questions on that Github thread. But, I continue in my quest to block YT's recommended pop music videos by any means necessary. I have my own visceral reactions to things... O for a Vevo -> /dev/null filter
- _-___________-_ 7y agoI seem to have thoroughly confused Google with regard to my region/language/currency preferences. Youtube regularly shows me videos in German, Google Maps keeps reverting to UAE dirhams for the currency it shows prices in, and Google Search always opens in Chinese. I use Google products in a Firefox container which is always logged in to my Google account, which should contain enough information for them to understand that I read English best and would prefer prices to be shown in Euros (or any of a list of maybe 10 other currencies before I would consider dirhams), but there you go.
- londons_explore 7y agoMost Google engineers are comfy sitting in the USA where "use IP location detection, map the country to a default language, and use that" sounds fine.
- kburman 7y agoReading the comments there feels more like targeting a community rather than a real inconvenience. Some of the example - > thanks man, i thought my pc was infected with an indain virus. sounds like its not only me .... > İ sicked of fucking indi*n videos on youtube. > This is so true, I totally hate those indian video I feel that the real problem is understanding the Indian accent.
- kranner 7y ago> I feel that the real problem is understanding the Indian accent. Well there's many more than one. "The Indian accent" is really only a trope on American TV shows. For instance, your username seems Indian/Bengali (sorry if you're not, just making a point) and I'm Indian/Punjabi and I bet we sound really different. Bengalis stress the first syllable in a word, Punjabis the second; Bengalis stretch the -ee- sound a bit, Punjabis truncate it especially when trailing. These are stereotypes, but they work well enough to place another Indian's state of origin instantly if you just hear their voice on the phone.
- vezycash 7y agoThe main problem FOR ME is the title. It's in English. No indication that it's in Hindi. I watch some Chinese / Japanese channels but I know what I'm going into before hand. Because both the channel name and the title would have hyrogliphs. I wouldn't mind if I had unlimited data. But I can download 10 tutorial videos based on their title only for 3-5 to be Hindi. Google search has been proven to forget old excellent articles. I think this amnesia is happening to YouTube as well.
- kburman 7y agoDisclaimer: I'm an Indian. We all have English keyboards and use it all day(I don't know whom you want to blame for this.) So it's easy for us to read and write in English. We even type Hindi in English. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinglish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinglish)
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- masayoshis_son 7y agoI only search YouTube with Google video search as YouTube's built-in search always seems to be delivering much less relevant results for me. Google Search seems to ignore the user's preferred language choice from the HTTP Accept-Language header and (for a not logged-in user) default to whatever can be inferred from the IP address/location but at least this behavior can be overriden.
- mangatmodi 7y agoSarcasm Alert - Hey, as an Indian I am tired of American English videos. The accent is so bad, I can't understand anything!! Btw, it looks like a good problem to solve. It is not easy to ML millions of videos to identify spoken language, but I guess google already has means to do it as they provide closed caption. Also, the YouTubers in the comments seems to be searching for IT topics, which is heavily dominated by Indians
- andybak 7y agoI was going to ask what they were searching for. I've not seen any videos from India (aside from when I actually was looking for them)
- mangatmodi 7y agoSearch for anything related to computer science, you will get tons of videos and true enough most of them are very bad quality in both content and language.
- CiPHPerCoder 7y agoI decided to test this empirically by selecting a computer science topic at random* https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bkz+reduction https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bkz+reduction 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Trwclh_Z4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Trwclh_Z4 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EapIVDlhvQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EapIVDlhvQU 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cicTG3zeVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cicTG3zeVQ ---- The scrollbar of my browser cuts here ---- 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i9BCsHxofE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i9BCsHxofE ... * random may or may not have been influenced by Dual EC
- mangatmodi 7y agoLols, you searched for Lattice reduction. We never studied that in our universities. Btw, My assumption was wrong. I searched many keywords, and there were no Indian videos at the top. Interesting!
- DrinkWater 7y agoI noticed this on Youtube: i keep getting more and more Indian Videos, for reasons unknown to me. I am not really "pissed off" by this, but a lot of these videos are just hard to understand for me, so it feels like a bad UX for me. What really annoys me is that Google in general is pushing German content into my face, despite the fact that my OS, my browser-settings, my Google profiles and my search queries are 100% English. Just the fact that i am physically located in Germany seems to be enough for them. I started switching to Google-alternative products almost 1.5 years ago because i am tired of them.
- lopmotr 7y agoThis whole language choosing thing seems to be an unsolved problem. It would be great if users could specify their preferred languages somehow in their browser/OS and websites and apps could respect that. But I guess users won't set it properly so websites will try to second-guess them. You used to be able to do something like google.com/ncr to get US English Google but that doesn't seem to work anymore :( Too many people thinking they know what they want, I guess.
- vezycash 7y ago>Too many people thinking they know what they want, I guess. ...what WE want... I blame Apple. They started the trend and everyone copied.
- viceroyalbean 7y ago>It would be great if users could specify their preferred languages somehow in their browser/OS and websites and apps could respect that There is[1], but no one uses it. At this point its primary purpose is probably just browser fingerprinting. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Language https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
- MaximumYComb 7y agoI'm assuming the poster is searching for videos in a niche IT area. Whenever I'm digging into a computer science topic I get tons of Indian videos. They're in English with a thick Indian accent. If you are able to understand the accent they're actually decent videos.
- aviraldg 7y agoNot having search results / videos from languages you do not know is a valid concern, but some of the comments on that thread are essentially just racist. I don't understand the complaints about the English accent being bad either, because there isn't an "ideal" English accent. It's just different. They also come off as extremely entitled. Guess what, everyone accustomed to a non-UK/US accent has to get used to them to actually understand pretty much any content on the web.
- switchb4 7y agoThe poster did not say what exactly is his problem with indian videos. Because he did not say if the videos he encounters are not in English.
- vijucat 7y agoYou can personalize the recommendations by clicking on the 3-dot menu and selecting "Not interested" and/or "Don't recommend channel". It even asks "Tell us why". I'm Indian and I hardly see any Indian videos. Here are my recommendations right now: https://imgur.com/a/KlSamZA https://imgur.com/a/KlSamZA (Basically Anjunadeep, Patrice O' Neal, and Batman :-) ). I believe their recommendation ML is top-notch and they keep improving it. For example, it seems to have finally learned that I absolutely effing hate "reaction" videos (it used to struggle with that ~ 1 year ago).
- wsxcde 7y agoSome people on the website are complaining that people are putting their video titles in English but the content is in some other language. This is not a lame attempt to get more clicks, but driven by the fact that: (i) Hindi typing works only somewhat well on mobile phones and does not work at all on most desktops/laptops in India, and (ii) search in languages like Hindi sucks even more. Given that most tech savvy Indians are bilingual anyway, it just makes sense to have titles in English so that people can search for them conveniently. You'll see this is something even Hindi newspapers do. I pulled these two articles from the front pages of the Dainik Jagran and Dainik Bhaskar, two of the bigger Hindi newspapers: [1] and [2]. Very little of the content, except for the title is in Hindi. This is so that people can search for content using English searches. [1] https://www.bhaskar.com/bihar/patna/news/prashant-kishor-political-strategist-bihar-patna-visit-latest-news-and-updates-on-former-jdu-national-president-126775173.html?ref=ht https://www.bhaskar.com/bihar/patna/news/prashant-kishor-pol... [2] https://www.jagran.com/politics/state-up-budget-2020-yogi-adityanath-government-will-focused-on-overall-development-budget-over-five-lac-crores-20040808.html?src=p1 https://www.jagran.com/politics/state-up-budget-2020-yogi-ad...
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- roelschroeven 7y agoWeirs, when I visit those sites almost everything is in a script I can't read. Only a tiny bit is in English. This is what the sites look like for me: https://imgur.com/a/h6U1Un1 https://imgur.com/a/h6U1Un1
- pandaman 7y agoSame here. Perhaps OP has Chrome's automatic translation set up to always translate it?
- wsxcde 7y agoSorry I had a typo. I meant to say very little of the content is in English. But the page title is in English and that matters because I can google for "Jagran UP budget" to get to the second article.