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I find YouTube search to be serviceable. At least it has decent filtering and sorting options. Gmail search is just OK, but I haven't found anything much better

by modeless 10mo ago

I find YouTube search to be serviceable. At least it has decent filtering and sorting options. Gmail search is just OK, but I haven't found anything much better. Chrome history search, though, is completely worthless. Especially since it got merged into that myactivity thing that is utter garbage, completely non-functional for any purpose. There's so much potential in searching a complete history of everything you've ever personally seen online, and it would make Chrome more sticky. Incredible fumble by Google here.

shalmanese 10mo ago
Youtube search does a baffling thing where it shows you 5 SERPs, then a bunch of unrelated things it thinks you like, then another 5 SERPs. It used to only show you the top 5 SERPs before switching to "suggested videos" for the rest of the scroll. Truly a terrible product when that was the design.
- charcircuit 10mo ago
  To be fair those "unrelated" videos are sometimes videos I'm also interested in, sometimes more than what I'm searching for.
  - fsckboy 10mo ago
    >To be fair those "unrelated" videos are the unrelated videos it shows me are so far from anything I'm interested in that I can only conclude it's showing both of us the same stuff, just lowest common denominator popularity. >videos I'm also interested in, sometimes more than what I'm searching for therefore, based on my argument, you must have horrible taste
- vintermann 10mo ago
  They fear tiktok is outcompeting them with even more aggressive attention hijacking, I guess, so they can't resist showing up something "This wasn't what you were looking at but can I get you to click it?"
- jerlam 10mo ago
  Youtube is not in the business of giving you accurate search results or information. It's now in the business of getting you to watch any video, related or not to your query, in order to serve you ads.
  - data_marsupial 10mo ago
    It is a very crude method for injecting diversity into search results (and the browsing experience). It can't be turned off and still shows up even if very specific search terms are used. Hard to believe it is the best possible video search implementation for their ad serving goals.
  - Workaccount2 10mo ago
    > It's now in the business of getting you to watch any video, related or not to your query, in order to serve you ads. Youtube was in this business from day 1. Even before Google. Youtube was never going to be anything other than an ad-platform with videos to lure in the products. Vid.me tried to be a video platform with videos to lure in users, but it went bankrupt, because nobody wanted to pay and nobody wanted to watch ads.

shalmanese 10mo ago

Youtube search does a baffling thing where it shows you 5 SERPs, then a bunch of unrelated things it thinks you like, then another 5 SERPs. It used to only show you the top 5 SERPs before switching to "suggested videos" for the rest of the scroll. Truly a terrible product when that was the design.

charcircuit 10mo ago
To be fair those "unrelated" videos are sometimes videos I'm also interested in, sometimes more than what I'm searching for.
- fsckboy 10mo ago
  >To be fair those "unrelated" videos are the unrelated videos it shows me are so far from anything I'm interested in that I can only conclude it's showing both of us the same stuff, just lowest common denominator popularity. >videos I'm also interested in, sometimes more than what I'm searching for therefore, based on my argument, you must have horrible taste
vintermann 10mo ago
They fear tiktok is outcompeting them with even more aggressive attention hijacking, I guess, so they can't resist showing up something "This wasn't what you were looking at but can I get you to click it?"
jerlam 10mo ago
Youtube is not in the business of giving you accurate search results or information. It's now in the business of getting you to watch any video, related or not to your query, in order to serve you ads.
- data_marsupial 10mo ago
  It is a very crude method for injecting diversity into search results (and the browsing experience). It can't be turned off and still shows up even if very specific search terms are used. Hard to believe it is the best possible video search implementation for their ad serving goals.
- Workaccount2 10mo ago
  > It's now in the business of getting you to watch any video, related or not to your query, in order to serve you ads. Youtube was in this business from day 1. Even before Google. Youtube was never going to be anything other than an ad-platform with videos to lure in the products. Vid.me tried to be a video platform with videos to lure in users, but it went bankrupt, because nobody wanted to pay and nobody wanted to watch ads.