There's clearly an attitude of "we know what you want better than you" at google right now that can be seen by the ridiculous shit coming out of Gemini. This is why their search has been getting so bad. They make a lot of assumptions of what you want, where it used to just give you what you were asking for
Gemini is emblematic of why Google products suck now
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YouTube search sucks so much
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Yes and my god give me suggestions to people I'm subscribed to and not random frickin creators. I don't mind randoms maybe in a separate section but I subscribed to the others for a reason.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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I stopped paying for youtube red because of this
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I haven't been locked out because of ad blockers. I got a notice once and haven't had it again.
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never got a notice on newpipe or brave,
but I was using yt for music and for playing on my TV. Ended up just going to spotify
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I get the most random shit suggested to me now like streams from some kid with 40 views or webinar recordings from random companies
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comments like this are actually surprising me. Youtube generally nails my interest. I watch a bunch of truck repair videos and it's like "maybe he wants to see airplane repair next?" I start watching typewriter videos to fix my typewriter and i get suggested 10 new typewriter creators. "this guy likes documentaries, lets see how he likes these creators." I don't like videos, i just subscribe to people's channels that I like and I have cancelled all my streaming services and got youtube premium
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It does decent for me but if you watch something you aren't interested it will poloute your suggestions for a long time. They also do show like 1 or 2 tiny creators on each page which is where some really random stuff pops up.
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man I havent watched tht stuff since before there were 'typewriter creators'
I used to be giganeurodivergent abt twypewriters I have so many of thm
I often get one (1) video recommended, usually in the second slot, that has 40 views or so. almost always some greasy g*mer
I think it's youtube's way to push small videos and creators subtly in the algorithm and if it helps one actually good vid/person do well i'm all for it
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I have a mint condition olympia sm9 coming tomorrow. Unless they doctored the photos, it literally looks brand new. Super excited about it. It's got a less common font too
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all the typewriters I have are from thrift stores for no more than $20
mostly smith coronas but also a 50s IBM
im too to be buying them online
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based typewriter autist
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Yeah my recommended is mostly fine, pretty well tailored to what I like - though it does have a recency bias, if I temporarily search for something one time, it recommends me similar videos for a week.
I do see the random stuff, videos with few views etc. suggested at times, but they do that to increase new channel discoverability. I don't mind it much, it's usually just 1 out of 15 recommended videos or so.
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Same. I'm currently on an a stint of watch repair video recommendations and I can't complain.
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i really enjoyed adept ape if you are into heavy catapillar engine repair
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Yeah honestly my YouTube shows me so much stuff related to each other it's effectively incestuous and I never see random cool things like small streams or company webinars. I also have youtube premium though, I wonder if we're literally paying for more insular recommendations
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This close to fedposting if I get another goddarn Jerma clip recommended to me. So many fricking channels about reposting Jerma streams. After I say I'm not interested 400 times I won't click the next
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Me too lmao and it's always the 3rd video (from top) on the right hand side recommended panel
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RSS feeds will be 25 years old in March, and still manage to be so much better than any "suggestion" tool tech companies have shat out
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Adding before:2030 to the search string will remove the suggestions.
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what
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but what if I want newer videos than that?
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type after:2030 instead.
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Shit is so inconsistent. When I do YouTube searches it'll do the first 5 as relevant then random videos that have nothing to do with my search
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DuckDuckGo is better at searching YouTube than YouTube is
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You need to scroll further. It always does this, first 4-5 are what you searched for, next 5-8 are sometimes relevant, sometimes not, then it returns actual search results again.
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A month or two ago i started getting 200 view lets plays, always in the same slot on the front page
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honestly, i have the exact opposite problem. It will show me all the videos from a creator and then start repeating videos... like neighbor I watched this yesterday... Don't yall have some similar content?
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For me it's the first row of people I'm subscribed to, usually people I watch all the time. Then nonsense with the shorts being complete nonsense.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Its called the subscriptions tab i cant even use home or recommended anymore since ive had search history off for years
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For what it's worth, at least on the home page you can use the three dots menu and say "not interested" or "don't suggest this channel". It gets the message pretty quickly.
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I've been getting fricking asian golfing videos for weeks! It's nonsense
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Lol even to this day you can't get "White Boy Summer" music video as a top result. It's hidden away under like 30 other useless results.
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i don't know how the fricked up A SEARCH FEATURE so badly
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One of three reasons:
If you get people into rabbit holes where they start consuming content that they've never seen before, or at least try out unseen videos (and thus see more ads) before making it to the one they want, then Youtube makes more money.
The ROI for unfricking the search algorithm isn't worth it
The search algorithm is so complex and opaque that employees don't even know what's going on
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Unfricking anything in an existing product is never worth it on an individual basis if you work for one of these companies. Your promotion case is always based on launching new products & features, driving new revenue, or sometimes killing some old thing that's costing money. It's also highly political. (not red-blue political, but office politics)
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True. I've seen unfricking initiatives, but they were spearheaded by competent leadership who knew it needed to happen to ensure the product's long-term success. So extremely rare.
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Hate that so much. I can search for something kind of specific and get like three related videos and the rest of them are completely unrelated or are videos I already watched like a week earlier from channels I am subscribed to.
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It really does, sometimes searching the exact video title isn't enough to get the top spot. I think another part of it that probably applies 2x to YouTube, is they've also shifted to showing results that make them more money, like sponsored videos, or how you almost always get "shopping" results for any Google search terms now
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I watched a video the other day of some big creator showing how his vid with millions of views is buried under re-uploads and other vids, even though he searched for the exact title or the title and his username.
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They've made it impossible to find anything that isn't some corporatized bullshit. You want to find a primary source video of something, you can't. You can only find some CBS affiliate's news coverage of it.
I had one of those late night itches about a half year ago to watch pimple popping videos. Couldn't find shit that wasn't that Asian lady doctor. I fricking hate YouTube.
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It flat out won't show you certain videos that are on YouTube even if you search for them using the exact title verbatim.
First encountered this when trying to find the video for "White Boy Summer" by Chet Hanks which they had censored so it could only be found via direct link on other websites. It also will not show certain Cumtown bits in search results, like one where they rejiggered the song "Arab Money" to be about rich people going to Epstein's island, or another one where they bought a new microphone with sound effects and started imitating Robin Williams as a cheerful comedic radio DJ at Auschwitz.
Still pissed at them for banning WarFilms44 and forcing Forgotten Weapons to censor videos where they talk about the history of weapons from Axis states, the Confederacy, and so on.
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I noticed that sort by new only goes back for a few days, and then it decides to start showing videos from months ago that also might match. Combine that with them removing the ability to block a user from showing up in your searches, so now trying to look for something results in thousands of spam videos with your term in the topic, and it's impossible to find what I'm looking for.
Also for some reason there's like thousands of porn videos being uploaded by channels that they aren't taking down for some reason. Case in point.
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https://youtube.com /watch?v=R5fU6uiHIt4
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