LanguageIsCoolYouTube "search results"
I was trying to search for something inside a specific channel the other day. The results were so random that I wasn’t confident I was even seeing all of the videos that had the word I typed in. Doesn’t help that it’s full on chaos sort with no option of any other sorting method. Complete trash.
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cRazi_manSearching/surfing YouTube is like searching/surfing Imgur. It’s a site for content hosting so you can link from other places. You have to go to online communities to find links to good videos.
There are good channels that are worth subscribing to, but going to YouTube directly is like trudging though a swamp.
It’s not like they’re part of a company whose core product is search.
Their core product is advertising.
I remember for a minute YouTube search was better than Google search. Now they’re both horrible
Censorship does retarded shit to things.
It’s not censorship. It’s just what happens to any platform run by a publicly traded company whose customers are the advertisers and whose users are the product.
They did change the algorithm to censor results in google search and now YouTube has also been censored.
Stop assuming corporate greed is anything but corporate greed… PLEASE stop blaming generic things for things the greedy fucks are doing. You will become infinitely more wise if you come to understand the vast majority of shitty things that happen from corps or governments are actions to protect the wealth and ego of the rich.
YouTube’s enshittification is about GREED, not censorship.
Censoring did happen. Why do you assume i don’t agree that corporate greed is also an issue?
morrowindbut I don’t understand, how does having shitty search help improve advertiser revenue
In a word, [Enshittification].(…medium.com/my-mcluhan-lecture-on-enshittificatio…)
The original Cory Doctorow article explaining it
I know the general term, but I don’t see how in this case still. On somewhere like amazon, there’s a clear incentive to have bad search, initially to capture sellers, then later to force them to pay to be high in search results, but youtube has no such program. You can’t pay to be higher in search results.
In general these corpos are interested in keeping you on their platforms to sell you more shit, ie ads. They do this by suggesting you controversial shit for further engagement. You can clearly see this when browsing shorts on YT.
They are incentivised because showing accurate results for what you asked for isn’t necessarily the best way to keep people on the platform.
By pushing certain types of videos, such as opinionated content or loud shouty videos for low attention spans, YouTube hopes to keep you engaged for longer than they would by being accurate.
There’s also a direct advertising reason to funnel certain types of video. YouTube creators earn different amounts of money for the same number of views depeding on what category (e.g. financial, gaming, writing advice, cookery etc) YT has auto-categorised your video as. We can infer from this that advertisers are willing to pay more money for ads in some categories than others, and therefore YT is directly incentivised to push those more lucrative categories in search results, even if they aren’t what you wanted.
Plenty of reasons why they want to mess with results.
mercYou search for “blah”, Google gives you a bunch of bad results, and serves up 5 ads. Nothing matches what you want, so you search again “blah but not foo” and you get another 5 ads. If search were good you’d only see 5 ads, but because it sucks you get 10 ads.
If Google had real competitors, bad search results might mean people would give up and use a competitor’s search, but because they have a search monopoly, they can enshittify their results and show even more ads without losing users.
OmnipitaphI switched to startpage for this very reason, and it was better for a while! Now its not as good and I’m thinking of going Duck. Idk man, someone needs to reinvent old Google’s search alg.
also grow the fuck up and stop using slurs like a petulant eight year old schoolboy stuck in 2005.
Petulant
Definitional collapse in action
8 year old boy trying to sound smart
Petulant is not the same as retarded. Petulant describes you acting like a pedantic fool when being called out for using a slur that denigrates disabled people. Soak your head you feckless imbecile.
I’m a different guy. “Petulant” actually means acting in a sulky or bad-tempered manner, ie. what children do when they don’t get their way. So I repeat: How is it relevant?
Ooooo you can be pedantic too. Shut the fuck up and stop defending slurs. Go back to Reddit.
Shut the fuck up and go back to Reddit where it’s trendy to use and defend slurs you ableist fuck.
That’s not what’s happening here, sorry.
I can search for the litteral title in quotes and not find it. Have to ise duckduck go smh
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so many ways 2 avoid getting personalized garbage results, and yet
nebulaoneHonestly, I only use Freetube and still get about 3 relevant results, then a whole bunch of unrelated bs / seemingly random playlists and shorts. After that there are relevant results again.
Still, these apps are great recommendations.
A trick to get better results (I.e. without suggestions etc) is to add “before:2026” TP your search string.
This filters out a lot of the garbage, and leaves you with search results alone. I somehow feel the need to do it most times now, if I’m searching for something very specific.
Why 2026? Isn’t everything on YouTube made before 2026
That’s the point. You get all the videos, but with a lot less crud.
But why does it work?
I’m guessing it just widens the search parameters outside of what they are pushing with the algorithm, so you’re actually searching everything instead it filtering to cater to newer content and “hot” channels.
I’m not gonna question it, and just be happy it works for now 😄
It’s like it just gives up after about 8 results. “These 8 results don’t contain what you want? I give up. Here, just watch one of these videos instead.”
Screw you, just show me the rest of the results, I swear it’s in the top 30 results.
It wants you to use their fees. It wants to tell you what to watch like Instagram.
Down the rightwing pipeline you go~, that anger and immaturity is big business!
Outrage drives engagement. They push whatever will get the biggest reaction.
Infernal_pizzaI think you mean:
“These 8 results don’t contain what you want? I give up. Here, just watch one of these videos shorts instead.”
starman2112You wanted to find “KSP ssto tutorial?” Are you sure you wouldn’t rather rewatch a Technology Connections video you watched last week?
TregetourLog in to search: 202_ Log in to watch: 202_ Disappearing videos (you’d better watch the new slop trailer right now!): 20__ Subscription surcharges (oh you want the Linus package do you): 20__
place your betz
Just use pormhub.