[HN Gopher] Ask HN: YouTube's website search isn't useful anymor...
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Ask HN: YouTube's website search isn't useful anymore, is there an
alternative?
I can't seem to get good answers -- YouTube just shows mostly
suggestions or things "I may like". I was trying to find videos on
specific IKEA furniture, but only got semi-related content.
Interestingly enough, tiktok worked perfectly. Curious if anyone
has tried some other video platforms or video search tools.
Author : aaronvg
Score : 19 points
Date : 2023-06-13 20:49 UTC (2 hours ago)
| pyeri wrote:
| Is it just me or YT also has this curious habit of pushing and
| promoting electoral politics video content more and more despite
| knowing full well that you don't watch such content?
| JohnFen wrote:
| I don't know if it's just you, but it hasn't been recommending
| that stuff to me (thank goodness).
| GravityisaHoax wrote:
| I haven't seen any politics in my feed. The content it shows me
| is fairly related to what I watch. I have used "Not interested"
| and "Don't recommend channel" fairly often, so that probably
| has helped.
| SllX wrote:
| In the past I aggressively made use of "Don't recommend this"
| and "Not interested" options, along with deleting accidental
| clicks from my history. I actually haven't had to do that in a
| long time though and I'm not seeing any political videos at
| all.
|
| If you're not doing anything to curate your recommendations,
| maybe give it a shot.
| PCP7 wrote:
| Havou tried pipe-viewer or piped/invidious?
| adr1an wrote:
| Invidious (alt. Frontend), NewPipe (android), FreeTube (PC). I
| use those since long ago. There's LibRedirect web extension for
| your web browser to find good invidious instances too. Cheers!
| nevernothing wrote:
| You can try to avoid irrelevant search results by using advanced
| search filters like "intitle:" or "-" to exclude specific words.
|
| I made a simple YouTube search form with search filters that work
| well on YouTube: https://playlists.at/youtube/search/
| Baljhin wrote:
| Interesting; my experience has differed: I noticed since late
| 2022 (last year) Youtube Search was essentially ignoring my
| exact queries, giving only the first two or so result matching
| the query - the rest of the results aren't even marginally
| related.
|
| Worse--this behavior continues, and has gotten so bad that
| today searching is all but useless to me.
|
| FYI- Your portal gave me good laugh on how it finds 'exact'
| Titles:
| https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+intitle%3Afugi...
|
| It works!
| lurker919 wrote:
| Exactly! It's so infuriating to search for a song cover and
| instead of being able to discover indie musician covers or
| rare live recordings, I get the studio version + 2 results,
| then I get redirected to 'related' songs.
| bawis wrote:
| Try this github repo: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle, there
| is a Youtube section there.
| weare138 wrote:
| A couple of my goto options are DuckDuckGo's video search or
| using the 'site:youtube.com' search operator trick for Google
| Search. YouTube's search and recommendations are largely useless
| now. YT just seems to endlessly shovel clickbait.
| Baljhin wrote:
| I luv-luv-luv userscript:
|
| Block Youtube Users
|
| > Hide videos of blacklisted users/channels and comments
|
| https://greasyfork.org/scripts/11057
|
| It's like GHHbD but from _within_ Youtube.
| LeoWattenberg wrote:
| If you go to Filter > Video, it gives you a more traditional
| search.
|
| Additionally, YouTube can be thought of as the second most used
| search engine. Which in return means that the built-in search is
| now up against Google, Bing and whatever else - and most other
| engines can be restricted to just search YouTube using the site:
| operator.
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