I remember for a minute YouTube search was better than Google search. Now they’re both horrible
YouTube "search results"
Submitted 3 weeks ago by LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
arin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Censorship does retarded shit to things.
blargle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
possumparty@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
also grow the fuck up and stop using slurs like a petulant eight year old schoolboy stuck in 2005.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I think you mean:
“These 8 results don’t contain what you want? I give up. Here, just watch one of these
videosshorts instead.”Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It wants you to use their fees. It wants to tell you what to watch like Instagram.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Down the rightwing pipeline you go~, that anger and immaturity is big business!
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
Searching/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.
frezik@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
It’s not like they’re part of a company whose core product is search.
Fetus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Their core product is advertising.
Anas@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
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.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why 2026? Isn’t everything on YouTube made before 2026
HereIAm@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s the point. You get all the videos, but with a lot less crud.
Iceman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can search for the litteral title in quotes and not find it. Have to ise duckduck go smh
Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Invidious Piped Materialious GrayJay FreeTube NewPipe PipePipe Clipious LibreTube
so many ways 2 avoid getting personalized garbage results, and yet
nebulaone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Honestly, 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.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You wanted to find “KSP ssto tutorial?” Are you sure you wouldn’t rather rewatch a Technology Connections video you watched last week?
Squorlple@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tregetour@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
Log 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
Buske@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just use pormhub.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
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.