Search is the reason I stopped watching youtube, I used to view and discover so many nice stuff in there, tutorials, new hobbies, new music, new creators with different interests, etc but now it's pretty much impossible to find, you are forced to watch the 3 top videos, some 3 ads and then it forces you to watch some other random unrelated crap, it's so annoying and frustrating

It got so bad that even searching the full tittle of the video doesnt show you that video haha

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adito an hour ago | parent | next [-]

What got me really mad is searching your own history. There's this "search watch history" on the https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

I remember watching video that contains certain word in the title. A minecraft contraption from a small channel (4 videos, 93 subs). I searched that word in the title. But youtube can't find it. Fortunately, I saved the world download that listed in the video with the name of the channel. So I searched the channel name + the word, it still can't find it.

So I searched only the channel name instead, in the search page. It works, and checking their videos, youtube mark one of them as watched. With the exact same title I searched. But it didn't show me in the history search. WTF youtube.

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maxxmod 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It doesn’t solve all the issues you mention, but YouTube Search Fixer [1] [2] is a browser extension that at least lets you remove irrelevant results, Shorts, live streams, and more from search. It makes results a bit more usable.

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with YouTube Search Fixer. I’m currently working on https://maxxmod.com, a YouTube-focused browser extension that will include search improvements, so I’ve researched the ecosystem.

[1] Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite...

[2] Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/search-fixer-for-yo...

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2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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gsky 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

on top of that it pushes worst creators (who are the biggest thanks to yt) content.

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Electricniko an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And good luck if the video you're looking for was related to something featured in a news report. No, youtube, I am not searching for 100 different local TV news stories about a viral video, when I type in the title of that viral video.

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tyrust 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> you are forced to watch the 3 top videos, some 3 ads and then it forces you to watch some other random unrelated crap, it's so annoying and frustrating

Brother, you are the one choosing the videos.

	▲	wswope an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Exactly the sort of user hostility I’d expect from a google employee. Shameful. Maybe if practical tools such as like-ratios were in place users could sort good content from bad.
	▲	insin an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It's gone massively downhill recently, noticeably so since the ability to sort by upload date was removed from the UI (and then very quickly removed from the API too). That was the final brick that prevented it from being literally unusable, now it's scroll and hope (and give up).
	▲	jijji an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The search filters and the user interface in general on YouTube is garbage. you guys need to go back to the drawing board. it really is almost impossible to find a video, you have to sort through hundreds of AI slop clickbait videos in order to get to the one that you're actually interested in finding.