I've always had watch history off, but my searches now return a couple of pages of short form nonsense, before my actual results.

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malfist 4 hours ago | parent [-]

YouTube search is just broken. Has been for a long long long time. You get 3-4 relevant results and then it just shows you random unrelated crap.

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asdff an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It is better to use google to search youtube via site:youtube.com operator.

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daveguy 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not broken from Google's perspective. The results are just optimized for their ad revenue rather than your viewing preference. Even the engagement hooks don't care what your viewing preferences are - just what they've calculated to optimize watch potential * ad revenue.

	▲	themafia 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You've got to permanently block 1000s of "popular" channels. Then youtube starts working like it did in 2006 again.