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Cycode t1_isfci1q wrote

Reply to comment by Enschede2 in To improve search results on YouTube, use "intitle:" before the search term by password_1_2_3

the most fucked up part about this all is.. if i use newpipe (android app) to search.. it is working WAY better. so they inject some fucky shit into the desktop client and their app to make it that bad. its so annoying. also they inject videos from my subbed youtubers.. even if the videos are about something unrelated to my search. god, i hate youtubes algorithm.

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ScreamapillarAPI t1_isfbxwu wrote

Reply to comment by FaryGagan in To improve search results on YouTube, use "intitle:" before the search term by password_1_2_3

I get that and all and who knows maybe I'm outside whatever target user YouTube is capturing. It's just now it's seriously getting in the way of useability to a point it's actually making me disengage with the platform more often instead of keeping me glued on the site for prolonged periods. I rarely engage with recommended videos because YouTubes algorithm gets it wrong like 7/10 times for me and spews garbage at me (I delete my history and start from scratch sometimes to alleviate this).

If they want to keep me engaged when using search specifically then they should simply provide me content that I asked for in my search query and then after finding something and click to watch it, from there let the recommendations flow in to keep me clicking. I'm not going to be able to watch their ads for products Im never going to buy if they aren't giving me what I want through search easily.

It just seems so ass backward to me. Do the product owners/designers at YouTube believe the majority of it's user base are that easily distractable like we all have ADD. Where they will use search with the explicit goal of finding something specific only to immediately abandon that goal 2 seconds later after seeing something unrelated but from a creator they watched before.

This stuff seems like it's from a relatively newer update and as someone who constantly works with UX designers and love poking holes in their ideas in order to get to the best solution. I would love to somehow see the usage analytics data from this update on the search feature because I can't be the only one finding this completely unintuitive and disengaging.

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TheEthyr t1_isf7z7c wrote

Reply to comment by RHINO_Mk_II in To improve search results on YouTube, use "intitle:" before the search term by password_1_2_3

You don't need a plugin.

OP's website basically creates queries of the form https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=<search terms>

You can essentially do the same thing in Chrome and Firefox using a customized search.

Firefox

Go to YouTube and search for -reacts. This will generate a query like above (i.e. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=-reacts. Then create a bookmark for this link. Now, go to Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks and click on the bookmark you just created. You can also go to Manage Bookmarks and manually create a bookmark from scratch. Either way, do the following.

Go to the URL and change it to https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s-reacts.

Next, go to the Keyword field and add a shortcut. You can call it anything you want. For example you can enter yt.

To use the bookmark, just go the brower's address bar and type yt, then space and any search terms. The browser will replace the %s in the bookmark with your search terms, then go to the resulting URL.

Reference: Firefox: How to use keywords with bookmarks

Chrome

Go to Chrome's settings and click on Search Engine. Scroll to Site Search. Click on Add.

Enter any descriptive text in Search Engine (e.g. YouTube no reacts). In Shortcut, enter yt or whatever keyword you want. In URL, enter https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s-reacts.

The click Add to save it.

Use it in the same way as Firefox.

Reference: Chrome: Add, edit, or remove site search shortcuts

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FaryGagan t1_isf7q2a wrote

Reply to comment by ScreamapillarAPI in To improve search results on YouTube, use "intitle:" before the search term by password_1_2_3

It drives me crazy too. Alphabet is in the advertising business now though, right? They have no stake in YouTube's functionality for the user, aside from delivering the advertisements they're paid to deliver. Why prioritize search functionality when it doesn't directly help bring in the money?

YouTube was content from the people and for the people. Now it's content from corporations and for corporations.

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ScreamapillarAPI t1_isezc90 wrote

Reply to To improve search results on YouTube, use "intitle:" before the search term by password_1_2_3

Will it not display recommended videos with the search results. This is the one thing that's seriously annoying me about YouTube these days. You want to search something about a general topic and maybe if youre lucky the first 2 videos are something related to what you search but then you have tonnes of completely unrelated videos based on your past viewership. It's so annoying they essentially blended in your content home feed with the search despite being two completely different features with different use cases in mind. I don't understand how an Alphabet company can screw up the act of searching this bad.

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Enschede2 t1_iseut80 wrote

Reply to comment by JakeEllisD in To improve search results on YouTube, use "intitle:" before the search term by password_1_2_3

I tried that but reddit changed the minus to a dot, but it's basically the search term you wanna exclude in "", and minus in front like -"unwanted"

This used to work always, however now it increasingly does not, it does still work for say excluding subscribed channels that are unrelated to the search by saying -"subscribed" or -subscribed, or you can say -"recommended"

Maybe there is a similar trick with intitle, not sure, just like ot used to work with google search, but they keep changing things, like it used to be +"searchword" +"includesecondword", but now it is "searchword" && "includesecondword"

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