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> search results the real problem is that youtube has decided to just put normal recommendations on the search result page in the place where search results sh
by jabroni_salad 3y ago
> search results
the real problem is that youtube has decided to just put normal recommendations on the search result page in the place where search results should go. I use the extension 'unhook' with the setting 'Hide Inapt Search Results' to remove that misfeature.
this feature was presumably somebody's baby and I'd really like to read their writeup where they unironically exalt its virtues so I can try to gauge how far up their ass their head is.
- Whooping7116 3y ago[dead]
- CBLT 3y agoMy favorite internal Google writeup of that kind was for when they doubled the number of screens you needed to click through to cancel YouTube Premium. By adding friction there, they reduced the number of people who successfully canceled their subscription. But the writeup was so very sure that all those people, in the middle of the cancel process, suddenly realized all the features they value in YouTube Premium, and that this change was making people's lives better.
- eimrine 3y ago> I'd really like to read their writeup where they unironically exalt its virtues Increased engagement by putting content after search box. Reduced search box to such the number that 99.7% searches still can accomplish successfully. Significantly reduced DB load. New incentive for the AI team to keep pacing its algo towards AI-only search.
- twisteriffic 3y ago> New incentive for the AI team to keep pacing its algo towards AI-only search Please no... Facebook is already doing this in marketplace and it's beyond awful. Like "search for an oscilloscope and get a vibrator" level of awful.
- Suppafly 3y agoConsidering how popular marketplace is, fb seems to be doing everything possible to reduce the utility of it.