| ▲ | jerlam 2 days ago | |
Youtube is not in the business of giving you accurate search results or information. It's now in the business of getting you to watch any video, related or not to your query, in order to serve you ads. | ||
| ▲ | Workaccount2 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> It's now in the business of getting you to watch any video, related or not to your query, in order to serve you ads. Youtube was in this business from day 1. Even before Google. Youtube was never going to be anything other than an ad-platform with videos to lure in the products. Vid.me tried to be a video platform with videos to lure in users, but it went bankrupt, because nobody wanted to pay and nobody wanted to watch ads. | ||
| ▲ | data_marsupial 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
It is a very crude method for injecting diversity into search results (and the browsing experience). It can't be turned off and still shows up even if very specific search terms are used. Hard to believe it is the best possible video search implementation for their ad serving goals. | ||