You barely get results related to your search terms at all before it shows you blocks of completely interrelated “shorts” and then just a feed of your subscriptions and recommended content.
Yup. It’s the worst change they’ve ever made to YouTube search.
And I don’t even know why, 9 times out of ten it shows me videos that I’ve already watched! I’m not gonna watch them again YouTube!
I’ve experienced this, but only occasionally, and I can’t figure out what causes it. One time the search returned good results, and a refresh returned garbage. I have no idea why.
They do it on purpose.
Next time you search, see if you can spot it: If you scroll far enough they ignore your query and show you recommendations based on your subs and history.
Sometimes you barely get 4 or 5 video results before they turn to junk. It’s maddening.
A lot of these times departments are trying to justify their own existence by using data in self serving ways.
If you are reading a spreadsheet on user data you might notice that people are going into search, quickly finding something and leaving the site.
Your boss is screaming at you that the higher ups want more “engagement” so you start tweaking the search.
After a few button presses you see that on average people are searching, clicking on a video and watching for a bit, watching another video, going back into search and looking up more videos, scrolling and then finally clicking and watching a full video.
You run to your boss and brags that search now has 3x engagement as people are watching more videos for longer per search.
We all get a promotion and celebrate how much better search is now that people are spending time in it longer.
My current pet peeve is that every time I start it up, I go “shit, did this get injected with some weird shopping malware? …oh that’s just the 'tuber merch bullshit thing, false alarm.”
I’m starting up the app to watch videos, not to go clothes shopping, for cripes sake.
YouTube is the worst for this.
You barely get results related to your search terms at all before it shows you blocks of completely interrelated “shorts” and then just a feed of your subscriptions and recommended content.
Yup. It’s the worst change they’ve ever made to YouTube search.
And I don’t even know why, 9 times out of ten it shows me videos that I’ve already watched! I’m not gonna watch them again YouTube!
I’ve experienced this, but only occasionally, and I can’t figure out what causes it. One time the search returned good results, and a refresh returned garbage. I have no idea why.
They do it on purpose.
Next time you search, see if you can spot it: If you scroll far enough they ignore your query and show you recommendations based on your subs and history.
Sometimes you barely get 4 or 5 video results before they turn to junk. It’s maddening.
A lot of these times departments are trying to justify their own existence by using data in self serving ways.
If you are reading a spreadsheet on user data you might notice that people are going into search, quickly finding something and leaving the site.
Your boss is screaming at you that the higher ups want more “engagement” so you start tweaking the search.
After a few button presses you see that on average people are searching, clicking on a video and watching for a bit, watching another video, going back into search and looking up more videos, scrolling and then finally clicking and watching a full video.
You run to your boss and brags that search now has 3x engagement as people are watching more videos for longer per search.
We all get a promotion and celebrate how much better search is now that people are spending time in it longer.
Have to tell it to only show videos and then it’s a little better
The best way is to use google and site search it
YouTube app’s user interface is the worst.
My current pet peeve is that every time I start it up, I go “shit, did this get injected with some weird shopping malware? …oh that’s just the 'tuber merch bullshit thing, false alarm.”
I’m starting up the app to watch videos, not to go clothes shopping, for cripes sake.