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Also, the youtube built in search often fails to match videos that have a word in the title for which you search for.

Minor49er 4y ago
I can't even find a specific channel when I spell it correctly, even with double quotes. I have to go into the filters and specify channels-only, and even then it puts a bunch of wrong results in front of it. Their search on YouTube used to be better, showing results for what was actually searched for. But now it seems like they're trying to drive views to high-performing videos since they now give a single page of results for any query before backfilling the results with a bunch of suggestions that have nothing to do with the search
- Akronymus 4y ago
  Up until a few days ago I had a redirect for search that fisabled the suggestions on the search page. Now, if I do that, the search only gives 1, irrelevant, result.
- nonameiguess 4y ago
  You should be able to just go directly to the channel using the URL if you know the channel name. youtube.com/c/<CHANNEL_NAME>. What on earth they use the distinction for, I don't know, but if it's a user with videos instead of a channel, then youtube.com/user/<USER_NAME>.
andai 4y ago
YouTube search is almost completely useless, I just use Google to find YouTube videos. It does seem to search in the video transcript and the comments (I'm not sure but it seems that way).
- hbn 4y ago
  YouTube's search results will show you like 10 results of the thing you actually searched for, then resort to a section of completely random video suggestions unrelated to your search in hopes some thumbnail will draw your attention and suck you back in to wasting your time watching videos and being served ads.
  - lostinroutine 4y ago
    I also suffered from this issue for a while but then discovered "Unhook" browser extension, which in addition to many other amazing features (e.g. hide recommended videos/comments) has a feature to hide irrelevant search results. With the feature on I get an endless list of matching results and no junk.
PaulKeeble 4y ago
Youtube is clearly blacklisting certain channels and they can't be found via even precise searches.
sph 4y ago
Unreasonable of you to expect search to be good in a Google product.
- kellenmace 4y ago
  lol- my thoughts exactly. How can Google search be so good, while YouTube search is so abysmal? Google bought YouTube in 2006, so they've had 16 years to get it right :D

I can't even find a specific channel when I spell it correctly, even with double quotes. I have to go into the filters and specify channels-only, and even then it puts a bunch of wrong results in front of it. Their search on YouTube used to be better, showing results for what was actually searched for. But now it seems like they're trying to drive views to high-performing videos since they now give a single page of results for any query before backfilling the results with a bunch of suggestions that have nothing to do with the search

Akronymus 4y ago
Up until a few days ago I had a redirect for search that fisabled the suggestions on the search page. Now, if I do that, the search only gives 1, irrelevant, result.
nonameiguess 4y ago
You should be able to just go directly to the channel using the URL if you know the channel name. youtube.com/c/<CHANNEL_NAME>. What on earth they use the distinction for, I don't know, but if it's a user with videos instead of a channel, then youtube.com/user/<USER_NAME>.

andai 4y ago

YouTube search is almost completely useless, I just use Google to find YouTube videos. It does seem to search in the video transcript and the comments (I'm not sure but it seems that way).

hbn 4y ago
YouTube's search results will show you like 10 results of the thing you actually searched for, then resort to a section of completely random video suggestions unrelated to your search in hopes some thumbnail will draw your attention and suck you back in to wasting your time watching videos and being served ads.
- lostinroutine 4y ago
  I also suffered from this issue for a while but then discovered "Unhook" browser extension, which in addition to many other amazing features (e.g. hide recommended videos/comments) has a feature to hide irrelevant search results. With the feature on I get an endless list of matching results and no junk.

PaulKeeble 4y ago

Youtube is clearly blacklisting certain channels and they can't be found via even precise searches.

sph 4y ago

Unreasonable of you to expect search to be good in a Google product.

kellenmace 4y ago
lol- my thoughts exactly. How can Google search be so good, while YouTube search is so abysmal? Google bought YouTube in 2006, so they've had 16 years to get it right :D