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Are we sure YouTube doesn't already do this? Often I have searched for a video while only remembering a certain phrase or even a certain comment left under it,

Are we sure YouTube doesn't already do this? Often I have searched for a video while only remembering a certain phrase or even a certain comment left under it, and YouTube was able to actually find it

cphoover 4y ago
They do... contents of speech are one of multiple input data to youtube indexing. Also you can search individual videos by showing transcript and pressing ctrl-f
- tomatowurst 4y ago
  I didn't know this...how do you show transcript?
  - kellenmace 4y ago
    Hey @tomatowurst! You can search within the spoken words/transcript of a single YouTube video by following these steps: https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230 https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230
    - tomatowurst 4y ago
      This is so cool I had no idea this was possible I would often seek a particular segment manually. Thanks!
      - kellenmace 4y ago
        Welcome! :)
- kellenmace 4y ago
  I have come to the opposite conclusion - YouTube does not reliably include spoken word/transcript matches in search results. As I wrote in another comment, I've run tests where I open up the transcript of a video using these steps (https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230 https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230), copy a few of the words, then perform a search using those words across that channel, and the video I copied the words from doesn't appear on the list of results. If Google decides that it's going to revamp YouTube search to include spoken word/transcription matches, that would make VideoMentions Search irrelevant– and I'd be okay with that! In the meantime, I think this is a useful free tool for quickly finding spoken word matches within specific channels. Thanks for checking it out!
kellenmace 4y ago
Hey @HidyBush! No, YouTube does not reliably include spoken word/transcript matches in search results. I've run tests where I open up the transcript of a video using these steps (https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230 https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230), copy a few of the words, then perform a search using those words across that channel, and the video I copied them from doesn't appear on the list of results. That's why VideoMentions Search exists. It provides a way to search the videos within a YouTube channel to reliably find spoken word matches (and it includes matches in the title & description, too). Thanks for checking out my project! Please let me know if I can answer any questions about it.

cphoover 4y ago

They do... contents of speech are one of multiple input data to youtube indexing. Also you can search individual videos by showing transcript and pressing ctrl-f

tomatowurst 4y ago
I didn't know this...how do you show transcript?
- kellenmace 4y ago
  Hey @tomatowurst! You can search within the spoken words/transcript of a single YouTube video by following these steps: https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230 https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230
  - tomatowurst 4y ago
    This is so cool I had no idea this was possible I would often seek a particular segment manually. Thanks!
    - kellenmace 4y ago
      Welcome! :)
kellenmace 4y ago
I have come to the opposite conclusion - YouTube does not reliably include spoken word/transcript matches in search results. As I wrote in another comment, I've run tests where I open up the transcript of a video using these steps (https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230 https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230), copy a few of the words, then perform a search using those words across that channel, and the video I copied the words from doesn't appear on the list of results. If Google decides that it's going to revamp YouTube search to include spoken word/transcription matches, that would make VideoMentions Search irrelevant– and I'd be okay with that! In the meantime, I think this is a useful free tool for quickly finding spoken word matches within specific channels. Thanks for checking it out!

kellenmace 4y ago

Hey @HidyBush! No, YouTube does not reliably include spoken word/transcript matches in search results. I've run tests where I open up the transcript of a video using these steps (https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230 https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230), copy a few of the words, then perform a search using those words across that channel, and the video I copied them from doesn't appear on the list of results. That's why VideoMentions Search exists. It provides a way to search the videos within a YouTube channel to reliably find spoken word matches (and it includes matches in the title & description, too). Thanks for checking out my project! Please let me know if I can answer any questions about it.