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The rage-stoking flamebait is definitely a real thing on all social media to drive engagement. But the only explanation for searching for an exact video name with the name of the creator, and the desired video not being in the top few hits but rather buried below dozens and dozens of other results is suppression of that creator. And it happens repeatedly for left-wing creators.

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odelik@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You also have to remember that Google has been switching their search tools over to AI search tools and the results have degraded as a result.

Even before then, there was manipulation of the search algorithm by content creators, even on the YouTube side.

It’s probably a combination of all factors tbh.

Google is slowly pushing on the scale of authoritarianism. Search changes being a degradation in results. Search algo manipulation. Google intentionally showing divisive content due to the higher revenue opportunities And the sheer breadth of right wing grift content.

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foggenbooty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There’s actually a simpler explanation. Companies will purposefully make their products worse to keep you using them longer. By prioritizing the algorithm over your search results you’re staying in the app longer, seeing more algo suggestions, and more likely to give up on your search and click something else.

Good examples of this are Google purposefully crippling their own search, or Netflix making it impossible to see what movies they actually have. So they kneecap the product. What are you going to do? Stop using it? If the answer is no, then there’s room to make it just a little worse…

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- pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That is another real thing, that doesn’t fit this example.
  
  If it did, any video on other topics would not be in the top few results - and yet in my unscientific testing of several random video titles and authors, they all come up in either the first result or in the first row.
  
  Different experience for searching leftist videos.
  
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