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by PittleyDunkin 594 days ago
Search of youtube is absolutely horrendous so I don't see any additional harm to from splitting them.

And of course the benefits are so large as to be difficult to enumerate.

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What’s horrendous about it in particular?
It frequently shows me videos that have nothing to do with the query, within the top 10 results. I'm not talking about being not precise; it's something that has completely no relevance.

For example, searching for recipes sometimes shows me Political News, and sometimes the news is even in a different country, and in a language that I don't speak.

Sometimes I also get a few results that are not just irrelevant, but intentionally made to have a visually repulsive thumbnail, like a zoomed-in shot of some skin pathology, which is something that I never search for or click upon. No idea what is happening there.

How to search for actual videos instead of random shorts that people put together on a phone for some god-forsaken social media credit? Protip: you can't filter out those "shorts".

How to block some posters from ever showing up in my search results?...

There are plenty of browser extension to filter away shorts. I.e. Enhancer for YouTube: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enhancer-for-youtub...
Requiring a browser extension rather proves my point though.
I suppose I don't have particulars to complain about. It's simply never worked unless I had a very, very specific video in mind to look for that I could tailor my query to. Instead I just see popular videos.
there is lot of creepy and gore content that is fed between keywords, in order to bait kids and make them see shocking content. Type the symbol . for example, or some Disney characters (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate or https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/ if you like to have a starting point )

Sadly not fixed

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/tebv1z/comment/ihb...

if you are really adventurous

That is bloody weird.
Try searching for videos using any other search engine and you'll see much better results. When I can't find a specific video I'm looking for, using another search engine always finds it.