Comment on YouTube "search results"

secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Censorship does retarded shit to things.

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  • blargle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They did change the algorithm to censor results in google search and now YouTube has also been censored.

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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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    • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      but I don’t understand, how does having shitty search help improve advertiser revenue

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You 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.

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      • blargle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        In a word, [Enshittification].(…medium.com/my-mcluhan-lecture-on-enshittificatio…) The original Cory Doctorow article explaining it

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      • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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.

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