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Search of youtube is absolutely horrendous so I don't see any additional harm to from splitting them. And of course the benefits are so large as to be difficul

Search of youtube is absolutely horrendous so I don't see any additional harm to from splitting them. And of course the benefits are so large as to be difficult to enumerate.

xanderlewis 2y ago
What’s horrendous about it in particular?
- PittleyDunkin 2y ago
  I suppose I don't have particulars to complain about. It's simply never worked unless I had a very, very specific video in mind to look for that I could tailor my query to. Instead I just see popular videos.
- inetknght 2y ago
  How to search for actual videos instead of random shorts that people put together on a phone for some god-forsaken social media credit? Protip: you can't filter out those "shorts". How to block some posters from ever showing up in my search results?...
  - jalk 2y ago
    There are plenty of browser extension to filter away shorts. I.e. Enhancer for YouTube: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enhancer-for-youtube/ponfpcnoihfmfllpaingbgckeeldkhle?pli=1 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enhancer-for-youtub...
    - inetknght 2y ago
      Requiring a browser extension rather proves my point though.
- rvnx 2y ago
  there is lot of creepy and gore content that is fed between keywords, in order to bait kids and make them see shocking content. Type the symbol . for example, or some Disney characters (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate or https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/ if you like to have a starting point ) Sadly not fixed https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/tebv1z/comment/ihby2hp/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/tebv1z/comment/ihb... if you are really adventurous
  - xanderlewis 2y ago
    That is bloody weird.
- powersnail 2y ago
  It frequently shows me videos that have nothing to do with the query, within the top 10 results. I'm not talking about being not precise; it's something that has completely no relevance. For example, searching for recipes sometimes shows me Political News, and sometimes the news is even in a different country, and in a language that I don't speak. Sometimes I also get a few results that are not just irrelevant, but intentionally made to have a visually repulsive thumbnail, like a zoomed-in shot of some skin pathology, which is something that I never search for or click upon. No idea what is happening there.
- timbit42 2y ago
  Try searching for videos using any other search engine and you'll see much better results. When I can't find a specific video I'm looking for, using another search engine always finds it.

Search of youtube is absolutely horrendous so I don't see any additional harm to from splitting them. And of course the benefits are so large as to be difficult to enumerate.

xanderlewis 2y ago

What’s horrendous about it in particular?

PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I suppose I don't have particulars to complain about. It's simply never worked unless I had a very, very specific video in mind to look for that I could tailor my query to. Instead I just see popular videos.
inetknght 2y ago
How to search for actual videos instead of random shorts that people put together on a phone for some god-forsaken social media credit? Protip: you can't filter out those "shorts". How to block some posters from ever showing up in my search results?...
- jalk 2y ago
  There are plenty of browser extension to filter away shorts. I.e. Enhancer for YouTube: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enhancer-for-youtube/ponfpcnoihfmfllpaingbgckeeldkhle?pli=1 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enhancer-for-youtub...
  - inetknght 2y ago
    Requiring a browser extension rather proves my point though.
rvnx 2y ago
there is lot of creepy and gore content that is fed between keywords, in order to bait kids and make them see shocking content. Type the symbol . for example, or some Disney characters (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate or https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/ if you like to have a starting point ) Sadly not fixed https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/tebv1z/comment/ihby2hp/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/tebv1z/comment/ihb... if you are really adventurous
- xanderlewis 2y ago
  That is bloody weird.
powersnail 2y ago
It frequently shows me videos that have nothing to do with the query, within the top 10 results. I'm not talking about being not precise; it's something that has completely no relevance. For example, searching for recipes sometimes shows me Political News, and sometimes the news is even in a different country, and in a language that I don't speak. Sometimes I also get a few results that are not just irrelevant, but intentionally made to have a visually repulsive thumbnail, like a zoomed-in shot of some skin pathology, which is something that I never search for or click upon. No idea what is happening there.
timbit42 2y ago
Try searching for videos using any other search engine and you'll see much better results. When I can't find a specific video I'm looking for, using another search engine always finds it.