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I just opened the YouTube app and the first recommended video is "youtube's search function is atrocious now". Their search function may be bad, but the addicti

• johnfernow 3y ago
  Here's the video for anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3dSkkEr-wk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3dSkkEr-wk tl;dw: First, he searches the exact name of the video on YouTube: it shows a fan-made animated skit of it, the wrong videos but from the right channel, and several re-uploads with only a few hundred views. Second, he adds the channel name before the name of the video in the search bar. Same results. Third, he tries searching for a famous line from the video: still no luck. Finally, he sorts by view count and it shows up, but still not as the first result. Is this some obscure video from some obscure channel? Nope, the video has 15 million views from a channel with 3.91 million subscribers that uploads videos regularly. He has a verified account which was created in 2006. I just tried doing the same search as he did in an incognito window, and it also didn't show up for me until I sorted by view count. I ran it on archive.today, and while it has slightly different results than what I got, nowhere in the search results does it ever show the original video with 15 million views. https://archive.ph/ksZhq https://archive.ph/ksZhq
• tracker1 3y ago
  Not for me... I'll go in a tangent for a couple videos,. Then have to sell out something else from my follows... Sometimes to discover I'm no longer following the channel. I can't stand it more often than not.