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The youtube search is generally terrible. I've noticed the pattern is 5-10 videos directly related from my query, a band of shorts (which I am now unable to eve

by icepat 3y ago

The youtube search is generally terrible. I've noticed the pattern is 5-10 videos directly related from my query, a band of shorts (which I am now unable to even close "for 30 days" anymore), followed immediately by "other content you may enjoy". It's completely killed a platform I used to go to for rather niche content. It's impossible to look for anything philosophy or psychology related without being inundated with Jordan Peterson grift videos thanks to their view count.

tzs 3y ago
They recently broke YouTube search even more. Go to a channel and do a search within that channel using the search field that is on the far right of the options below the channel information. You may have to click the ">" on the right to make it visible. What is supposed to happen when you search using that is that it shows you just results for that channel. It still does that for some searches, but for other searches it seems to be doing a normal site wide search. Whether or not a given search term works correctly seems to be a function of the search term, not a function of the channel being searched. For example, let's say you are on a channel that reviews movies, and you want to see if they have reviews of some family friendly animated moves. Search for "zootopia", "trolls", "cars", "coco", "dragon", "stitch", or "panda" and it gives just results from that channel, or tells you the channel has no matching content. Search for "luca", "soul", "moana", "puss", "megamind", "ratatouille", "rio", "croods", or "lilo" and you get site wide results. For multi-word searches order matters: "lilo & stitch" gives site wide results and "stitch & lilo" gives results for the channel so it is not the case that certain words trigger the problem. I assume this is a bug, since I can't see any connection between the words that break out of channel search. They were all movies in my examples, but similar things happen with words from other categories. Example: "soprano", "tenor", "countertenor", "mezzo-soprano", and "bass-baritone" work correctly, and "baritone", "alto", "base", and "contralto" do not.

by icepat 3y ago

tzs 3y ago

They recently broke YouTube search even more. Go to a channel and do a search within that channel using the search field that is on the far right of the options below the channel information. You may have to click the ">" on the right to make it visible. What is supposed to happen when you search using that is that it shows you just results for that channel. It still does that for some searches, but for other searches it seems to be doing a normal site wide search. Whether or not a given search term works correctly seems to be a function of the search term, not a function of the channel being searched. For example, let's say you are on a channel that reviews movies, and you want to see if they have reviews of some family friendly animated moves. Search for "zootopia", "trolls", "cars", "coco", "dragon", "stitch", or "panda" and it gives just results from that channel, or tells you the channel has no matching content. Search for "luca", "soul", "moana", "puss", "megamind", "ratatouille", "rio", "croods", or "lilo" and you get site wide results. For multi-word searches order matters: "lilo & stitch" gives site wide results and "stitch & lilo" gives results for the channel so it is not the case that certain words trigger the problem. I assume this is a bug, since I can't see any connection between the words that break out of channel search. They were all movies in my examples, but similar things happen with words from other categories. Example: "soprano", "tenor", "countertenor", "mezzo-soprano", and "bass-baritone" work correctly, and "baritone", "alto", "base", and "contralto" do not.