YouTube descriptions started being useless since they became a copy/pasted generic blurb of text (irrelevant to the video at hand) and a dumping ground for vari

YouTube descriptions started being useless since they became a copy/pasted generic blurb of text (irrelevant to the video at hand) and a dumping ground for various social media or similar links, so no surprise that you aren't bothered by spam links in something that nobody looks at anymore because it's already been spammed to hell. But there was a time when descriptions were all manually written and were an actual summary/overview of what's in the video. > So how do we make search engines that distinguish legitimate creators like that from spammers who create fake blogs with fake reviews and tons of affiliate links, all using a fancy blog template that makes the site seem trustworthy? It's a whole other problem for videos so I'm going to approach this from a website search results point of view: we simply use presence of commercial content as a ranking factor - if the commercial content is all that matches your query then you get it, but if something non-commercial matches your query equally well then it comes first. This encourages non-commercial content without banning commercial content entirely. Ads/marketing/etc are noise, so it would be normal for a search engine designed to serve the user to rank low-noise content above noisy content, right?