[out-of-ideas]

#5 here for sure

before Google gave results relative to the region you were in, google search results were amazing. you could search generically and get loads of websites with lots of rich content; it was not always about getting the exact 1 "absolute" answer - it was about finding MORE websites with lots of content...

it's evolved though, several times over, for their profit...

[fallingknife]

Journalism and SEO really ruined it. Search for any sort of newsworthy info like a video or statistics, and you used to get the raw video or report. Now you have to wade through clips of said video with some news person talking over it, or articles about the actual data instead of the data itself. Adding "raw video" or "raw data" to the search has minimal effect. Search for anything with commercial relevance and it's SEO spam all the way down.

[_nalply]

I found out with some iterations you get raw videos.

First check if negative filtering works. If not, give up straight away or use a different search engine.

Then add the term `-news`. This filters out a lot of these videos, but not all.

Look at the video headings. Most of them contain the name of the company. Add about three to five of them. Like this for example: `-NBC -"Fox Weather" -Guardian -CBC -CNN`.

Then just scroll about three pages till you find a raw video, or add more negative terms and repeat. Be careful not to accidentally exclude raw videos, for example if there is something about people guarding something, don't use `-Guardian` but perhaps `-"Guardian News"`.

Or just give up and don't watch Internet videos.

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

You can still find things if you work really hard for it. But the point is that Google could give you better results, it knows how. It is CHOOSING not to because worse results for you means better profits for them.

[out-of-ideas]

sometimes i still use https://millionshort.com/ for filtering out those crap tier sites; web site search engine still means finding useful webpages - i hope the AI search engines do recognize that as a target to list actual useful sites vs the 1-summary-to-rule-them-all