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My biggest issue with YouTube is that the search doesn't work properly any more. It shows you a handful of results related to your search term and then goes off
by jstanley 4y ago
My biggest issue with YouTube is that the search doesn't work properly any more. It shows you a handful of results related to your search term and then goes off into the weeds showing you videos that "people also watched", videos "for you", and videos that you previously watched.
Obviously the goal is to distract people with something that they'll click on, rather than to help them find what they are looking for. Very frustrating.
- crop_rotation 4y agoI have resorted to using Google for youtube searches. Works well.
- nicbou 4y agoA lot of Google core products feel like that now. The core features seem to have been abandoned, and in some cases only get updated to make them worse.
- mirrorlake 4y agoTo get the more traditional results you have to go into filters and choose "video", but I'm sure they'll eventually remove the ability to search for only videos eventually, too (ugh). It's the "news feed-ification" of search.
- jstanley 4y agoNice, I didn't know about this option, thanks. Sadly it doesn't appear to be sticky, it gets reset every time you make a new search.
- xattt 4y ago> It's the "news feed-ification" of search I can see the future of ChatGPT-like search working like the free tier of Pandora. If you search for something, you’re given results like it but not the actual thing you looked up. Results you want will be paywalled behind subscriptions.