[chizhik-pyzhik]

Prepend your search with 'intitle:' and you'll get results with the string in the title.

[lagadu]

As a regular user, my expectation is that the very first results from a search would be from matching the title string (possibly after trying to match the unique video id seen in the url), only afterwards would results from keyword matching and other such metadata show up.

Maybe I'm out of touch but I don't think this is an unreasonable expectation.

[thejynxed]

It's not unreasonable, and it's exactly how it used to work until Google started messing around with inserting ads into every aspect of the site (they very much want you to you click on the ad-laden videos you were NOT looking for). They changed the default and relegated it to be a search modifier.

[RockingGoodNite]

Then we are having to play games (not the fun ones), like we did in the AltaVista days.

[causality0]

For now. If Google is willing to break operators in Search they'll break them everywhere soon enough.