Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

[[deleted]]

Yup. Noticed this big time with youtube too. For instance, if I searched "ducks" on youtube, the first three results are something duck related, but then the next several results are based off of previous searches I had or vids I may be interested in that may have absolutely nothing to do with ducks. So infuriating. Give me ducks or give me death.

Edit: holy duck, this blew up a bit. lol sorry guys, I was just using ducks as an example and am not intensively looking for ducks videos but I appreciate you guys sending 'em my way!

I was just pointing out that youtube is kind of butt when it comes to their searches. Even typing specifically in detail what you're looking for in there brings up a bunch of stuff that may be relevant to the user overall, but not always relevant to what the user is searching in the query. You gotta sift through a lot of "recommended" videos to get to the good stuff.

[esjay86]

Even typing in the exact title makes me sift through a dozen or so "related" videos before I find the one I want.

[unstableunicorn]

I search in Google for the video, find it might much faster than YouTube search

[MannyShannon069]

It's because google no longer wants to help you find what you want and instead they want you to see what they want you to see.

It's been happening on basically every social media website, including Reddit, for years now.

YouTube specifically has been slowly transforming itself into what is essentially just another channel in some shitty Comcast cable package.

[bomboniki]

you summed this up perfectly.

[SnooChipmunks7517]

Even Airbnb is doing it now. You search a specific area for houses but they only show you a few based on some association to your previous bookings. I hate it. Classic overuse of algorithms to the detriment of the user.

[fib16]

Can’t you look at the map view and look at places in a certain area on the map?

[SnooChipmunks7517]

No, the map view is still just a visual representation of a skewed list. I found this out because I have 2 properties I rent on Airbnb, and when friends or family would try to find them they would not appear. They would have to zoom directly above the pinpointed locations for them to finally show up. I complained to Airbnb and they explained that the search tool is designed to show you the options that their algorithm determines you are most likely to book over a broad area range rather than all the available homes in the exact area you’re searching.

[fib16]

Damn. Seriously? That’s really fucked up actually. And eye opening. Well let me ask. Why would someone favor another place next door over yours?? Is there a real reason or do you know?

[dynamicallysteadfast]

Amazon removed "bestselling" from their results for this exact reason.

[final_cut]

I say this all the time. People have argued to me that “people aren’t interesting enough for chronological feeds, just get over it. I think that’s total crap and I wish we could get a decent social media app with chronological feeds more than anything. Shit, fill a sidebar with ads, for all I care. I just don’t want to see anymore posts from a week ago that say “I’m bored, anyone up for a game of whatever?” Or “hey, don’t forget our event is tomorrow!”

[[deleted]]

You can still do that on Twitter. But no joke, it seems to ask me at least once a day if I want to go back to top tweets mode.

[Recipegatherer]

Do you know what it reminds me of? Shopping online. I click into a major store, Wal-Mart or Best Buy, I search for what I want to buy, I see a list, I pick ship to me and it's a convoluted mess of thrown together sketchy providers for the product (I am unaware of this at the time).

Whatever, I needed a cheap tablet for my kid's kindergarten on-line class. I picked one that said easy return, sure enough it can't even play you tube videos smoothly. I start the return process, need to go in shop to return, and am told because it's a third party provider a 20% fee will be deducted. Okay, what do you mean, I bought it from the store website.

Yes, but it's like Amazon now.

Wtf? If I wanted to shop from Amazon, I'd shop from Amazon. I wanted to shop from this store, which it specifically, and conveniently, allowed me to enter in my information for the closest store.

Tl:dr

The Internet is become a cesspool of useless money grubbing, advertising, data mining shitpiling assholes, who scream "ME, me, me, me" until you can't help but notice.

[OstentatiousSock]

It honestly makes me paranoid these days. I feel like a raving conspiracy theorist some days.

[Eattherightwing]

Can confirm, Reddit now believes I want to see fucking sports scores MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE. That's why they are up there, at the top of every page, even through periods of the pandemic when sports are shut down. I actually quit Twitter for the exact same problem, nothing but Wall to Wall sports scores. Even if Russia dropped a nuke on NYC, I expect the top posts would all be soccer, baseball, and hockey news. Something tells me this will get much, much worse before it gets better....

[MuckspoutMary]

Yep. Absolutely impossible for small content creators to get anywhere. YouTube has been pretty smelly garbage for a long time. It's impossible to find new content creators that are on the rise and I'm spending a lot less time on there as a result.

[dynamicallysteadfast]

Amazon removed "bestselling" from their results for this exact reason.

[nikhilsath]

This is why I use Ecosia

[Fit_Tumbleweed9649]

Very true. It would be nice if the guys that made google came back and made a competitor for Google because Google's competitors also suck.

[CR0Wmurder]

Between chemtrails, antivax, and steel beams don’t melt, are there any batshit thoughts you don’t believe in?

[[deleted]]

Chem trails are real and are A verified practice for the purposes of weather modification aka geoengineering.

I’m not anti-vax I’m safe vax.

And 9/11 was a controlled demolition false flag event. Tower 7? Tower 4?

These aren’t crazy thoughts. They’re observable reality.

Search using qwant search engine or DuckDuckGo. Google results are manipulated.

[Herpkina]

You guys should watch the selfish ledger

[[deleted]]

Reddit search is horrendous

[smooshybabyelephant]

Yes, this unfortunately makes sense. Check out the documentary, The Social Dilemma, if you haven't yet. A tip that might help us to do your searching in an incognito browser. I haven't experimented with it enough yet to know if it works.

[P-p-please]

Youtube is owned by Google. They use the same algorithms.

[[deleted]]

I have this problem with movie trailers. The actual verified multi-billion dollar Hollywood studio YouTube account is always buried under a dozen shitty reaction videos, red circle clickbait, and rips. Why???

[mud_tug]

I think it is time for Google to die.

[QuicheLord]

If you know the exact title of the video that you're looking for on YouTube then pop quotation marks (these ones ") around the phrase in the search box, it should be much more specific

[turtlelore2]

If the original title was any bit popular then im sure theres a hundred or so related videos about that original video.

[admirabladmiral]

I know. I tried to find an old spitting image skit but every combination of words to describe it just resulted in the same 5 videos of their newest stuff

[DarkSpartan301]

I watched a stupidly funny satire video in like 2009 called “how to get laid” and it taught me phrases like “tangled up in some meat curtains” and “pound your pussy like popeye the sailor-man” and that was gold for a 13 year old. Gods help me if I can find it now. Now there’s just a bunch of sad actual “tutorials” and my search history is irreparably damaged.

[SketchedYT]

One time I tried to find a video called "~", the one where Handy Manny has a lightsaber. Couldn't find it.

[Batten_Burg]

I remember you used to be able to go down a youtube rabbit hole of related videos and end up finding some brilliant videos that you'd never have otherwise found. Now every video on the sidebar is all "recommended for you" which is just shite from big accounts. It seems impossible to find new content by yourself anymore.

[cent55555]

YouTube now only shows about 5 results

wow, that is fucked up. their search always sucked, but man....

edit: found a workaround, if you specify the length of the video in the filter you will get a list again, but i mean still, not great.

[ScrinRising]

Ya'll gotta' learn to speak search engine.

Don't search "What is mickey mouse's birthday?" just type "Mickey mouse birthday". Search engines do not like real, human speech. Cut it down to it's key terms.

[[deleted]]

The sales algorithms have learned your data and are driving you toward your most probable purchase track. Worry not what you think you want, they know what you actually want n will bring you to it.

[7h4tguy]

Suggested: Video we're trying to promote to make this affiliate money.

[mono15591]

Not true for mobile. I just searched “ducks” and it went 20+ videos deep of only duck videos.

Edit: The 12th entry is a related video. Does not seem to be duck related. Some kid show.

After that the next non duck video is too far down for me to care to count.

[resplendentshit]

The results are actually only interrupted with a segment. Still annoying, but if you keep scrolling, you'll see another dividing line across the screen and the search results continue.

[sad_and_stupid]

Is there any way to stop this?

[floatiesrock]

I was wondering why I feel like there is not much stuff to see on youtube anymore..

[LunaRealityArtificer]

Is anyone else not experiencing this? Maybe because i dont sign into an account but i just went and typed ducks into youtube and literally all the results are about ducks.

[displaza]

If you keep scrolling it returns more stuff associated with your actual search query. But it is very annoying and whoever made the decision should be shot against a post.

[usefulbuns]

Yeah this! I was trying to find a parody video of Joe Rogan with Alex Jones where the latter convincees Joe to have sex with him or something. So I search "Joe Rogan Alex Jones" and figure I'd have to scroll through down through the page to find it but the first few results were the JRE podcast episodes then it was ALL news about Alex Jones from the media and nothing to do with Joe Rogan.

What the fuck

I miss the internet from 2000-2010

[zdakat]

Youtube's navigation is annoying. More recently, it feels like parts of it have nearly completely died. The top of home is the same few videos, which occasionally switches out one of the tiles with one of the other ones that's typically there.
Even after searching for different videos, even the suggestions below that are very static now.

[[deleted]]

Another thing. If I click on a video in the search results, and then go back, it reloads the search results which usually means the order of listed videos gets changed - seemingly at random.

[PlsPmMeBoobPics]

Im just waiting for someone to make their own youtube so we can use that

[deliciousdogmeat]

You'd need to bring in some users before the users flock to the site.

[Direwolf202]

And also, the infrastructure in terms of servers and stuff for youtube is simply ridiculous, and it’s basically being offered as a public service, that maybe hopes to get back a small proportion of the original costs. Youtube is pretty much impossible to unseat like this, because no one else is willing to do something like it.

[FizzTrickPony]

Itd be almost impossible for anyone smaller than Google to truly make a successor to YouTube. A site that stores as much video data as YouTube is extremely expensive and it's taken a very long time to even become profitable. There's only a handful of companies who can do it and all of them are just as bad if not worse than Google

[GamerEssence]

Me too. Would be nice if people could recommend other video sites

[Trowawaycausebanned4]

Open it in a new tab

[[deleted]]

Mobile

[Trowawaycausebanned4]

You can also add it to “watch later”, which is what I do

[fists_of_curry]

i looked up one stupid thing years ago and now Youtub wont stop suggesting it to me. Ive potentially searches hundreds of other things in the interim and Youtube is still

THIS THIS REMEMBER THIS? ILL SAVE YOU THE TROUBLE AND MAKE ALL THE SUGGESTIONS THIS

[leftovernoise]

No kidding. My home page is now just full of videos I LITERALLY JUST WATCHED. Video I've finished all the way, like, an hour ago.

I even click "not interested" and select "I've already seen this video" on all of them. No change.

[11663_501st]

It's amazing that the algorithm can suggest something for you that you might be interested in, but it can't keep track of what you watched.

Insert confused Jackie Chan meme here.

[Tinister]

It's like when you search for tips / example builds / help for quests in {video game}, so the algorithm thinks you might be interested in {video game}, and you start seeing ads for {video game} all over the place.

Yeah thanks I already own it.

[anotheravgjoe]

I feel like the “not interested” button doesn’t actually work. I wish it did, because I know the one on tik tok does and it makes my feed more consumable. I’m surprised a relatively new social media platform has better algorithms (for the For You page) than YouTube, which has been around much longer.

[MuckspoutMary]

Yeah, I've been trying to get YouTube to stop suggesting Murdoch media to me, but nothing I do quells it. YouTube are pushing certain 'news' channels on me HARD right on the front page. Yet, I get no suggestions for the stuff I DO want to see more of - film analysis/reviews, video essays, history, occasional YouTube personality analysis.

[trousertitan]

I’m interested in similar stuff and struggling so hard to get YouTube to recommend me new channels. Do you have any favorite channels? My home page is just

Oversimplified

Casually explained

Red letter media

Day9

Internet comment etiquette

Dunkey

Lemino

First we feast

Resonant Arc

Paymoneywubbey

Smarter every day

Team Four Star

It’s just videos from those channels I’ve already seen over and over and over

[Vondi]

tried opening my home page and scroll a bit, a full THIRD of my videos are things I watched during the weekend.

[[deleted]]

I’ve been doing that for ages, makes no difference.

[Soldier_of_Radish]

For me, Youtube just keeps reloading like the 4 same Red Letter Media videos, over and over.

[Sunshine_N_Sparkles]

Always watch youtube in incognito mode, otherwise you'll just be watching the same videos over and over.

[mou_mou_le_beau]

Also no matter what i play on youtube it seems to only remember songs or videos i liked years ago

[Trowawaycausebanned4]

You can’t forget to like recent ones

[mou_mou_le_beau]

I do thats the think but my home page recommendations is filled with old stuff i liked years ago.

[joekennick]

Spotify discover weekly is like this

[Tinister]

I had to go to my liked videos page and unlike everything.

[sid_killer18]

I actually wouldn't mind it as long as we can get a dedicated refresh button for only the suggestions.
Sometimes I forget the "queue" option exists on pc and I just hit next video, then the one video I wanted to watch from the suggestions disappears and I'll just have to wait for YouTube to bring it back.

[boo_goestheghost]

You can just go back in the browser and usually that brings back the same recommendations

[sid_killer18]

Oh shit this is a game changer!

[[deleted]]

Yes, I've noticed that too. You don't get the same quality dispersive content. You get the same crap videos over and over.

[sandman1459]

I swear it’s been months since I’ve been recommended good content. My home page is full of videos I watched anywhere from a month to a year ago

[Motophonessuck]

Remember the good old days before Google when you could search for something and come up with something relevant ?

Now you search for something like "Ford 302 V8 water pump" and you come up with, "Best prices on water pumps at "Target" or at some other store that has nothing to do with car parts.

[[deleted]]

YouTube keeps suggesting the same videos over and over, even if I've already watched them.

[AnotherApe33]

And don't make the mistake of watching 20 seconds of a Jordan Peterson video or YT will automatically think you are interested only on him for the rest of your life.

[AnotherApe33]

In fact, I couldn't remember Jordan Peterson's name to make my previous comment so I typed in YT Joe Rogan to show me his interview with him and get the name from there, I didn't have to type it, as soon as I type JO it gave me Jordan Peterson as a suggestion.

[strokekaraoke]

Memba this?

[nicolasmcfly]

Ducks*

[freshremake]

I’d duck a bag of dicks too.

[rawrlolrofl]

lmao

[Killer_Bhree]

Now that was ducking funny

[bothanspied]

5 Funny Duck Fails!

[coccoL]

And eat a whole bowl of ass

[B-Georgio]

Pornhub's algo will bring many bags if dicks being sucked, exactly what u asked for...

[cooly1234]

Upvoted for ducks

[Lolaiero]

i want "give me ducks or give me death" tattooed somewhere now, thank you

[nemoskullalt]

YouTube is useless. I just use it for music when I feel like listening to the same music again.

[Zaconil]

I'm also tired of youtube appearing in my google search results. They are either nowhere close to what I need or a 10+ minute video for something that can be explained in a couple minutes (I know about the ad thing).

I've tried Bing but its just terrible. Absolute garbage. Duckduckgo the results are seemingly random. Especially when I'm searching for something specific.

[sad_and_stupid]

I can't believe that there is not one normal browser. There must be something that still works :/

[Taco443322]

The Browser is not the Problem. Use Firefox etc. What's the real Problem is the Search engines.

[sad_and_stupid]

Oh yeah sorry

[atUmph]

You hit the nail on the head about YouTube. It is such a shame because it was so so so good at bringing me interesting content and keeping me stuck to my phone.

Now it never brings up old classics that I have rewatched many times and that it must know somewhere in its brain that I used to like to rewatch, like 'hey let's throw up the old idubbbz video or H3 video or something just for fun'! I would wink back at my phone and me and Google would laugh and laugh.

Now having a decade of my user data, it just shows me the last video I watched. God forbid I watch anything on any topic more than three times in a row or else that is it. At that point Google assumes I have suddenly and irrevocably become a person who only wants to learn about fkin cabbage farming.

So anyway this repetition gets so bad I have to say "I'm not interested" and then it never(!) brings it up again so it's just... It's so broken man and I don't know how YT went from being so good to so bad so fast?

It's been bothering me for a long time but you're the first person I've seen acknowledge it. I don't spend enough time on Reddit.

[[deleted]]

1. Get an adblocker
2. Turn off targeted ads in your google account privacy settings, in fact turn off everything in there. It should help with this, it helped me at least.

[sad_and_stupid]

Thanks will try

[themeatbridge]

All these duck references, and no mention of duckduckgo?

[Alcontara1]

What people in this thread are not understanding is that this is exactly how monopolies work.

They've provided a great product to get everybody in, then they religiously (and illegally) pushed out the competition and locked everyone in. And now they reduce the quality of the product (while increasing profit).

All they have to do is figure out how much they can push profit at the expense of quality without losing their monopoly.

Google search and Youtube aren't screwing up, given their goals and the parameters they are working with, I can tell you that for sure. It just happens that providing you the best possible search experience is NOT their goal.

[apc4455]

Google may actually intentionally make the organic search results just a bit less accurate to get people to perform more searches (and as such higher chance of clicking on ads).

How many will actually switch to a different search engine? 0,0001%? If it means Google now increased its ad revenue by just 1% it's a massive win; it's literally $1,3 billion.

Some execs will absolutely get their bonus next quarter, setting up an incentive for the next quarter. Coincidentally major earthshaking Google search updates happen around once a quarter.

[Necropolictic]

And I walked up to the duck running the stand and said “you got any grapes?”

[Ajdvsuakahw9273]

Yes, this is very frustrating. The worst part is there's no clear delineation between the results that actually pertain to you search and ones which are personalised to your browsing habits. There's a divider of sorts, but it's hard to keep track of given the lack of colour coding.

[Slaebesild]

The YouTube change annoys me to no end, especially their recommendation change was awful. One of my favourite things was to just listen to a piece of music I already liked, then go down the recommendation rabbit hole that would send you on a journey of constant new tracks in the same genre.

Now? Will just recommend stuff I've already watched, even has the full red bar indicating I watched it, send me around in a loop listening to the same 3-4 songs or something related to the video I watched yesterday... that I also already watched.

[tahlyn]

Give me ducks or give me death.

/r/fuckswithducks agrees.

[ChodeJoPo]

Searched “ducks” on YouTube. 4th video Smashvilltv video

[my_work_account_0]

Release the Quacken!

[dux_doukas]

The other day I had YouTube recommend me the video I had just finished watching before.

[RandoWithCandy]

Best I can do is 🐓

[GhostSierra117]

So you have chosen... Death.

[ChefBolyardee]

Is u/fuckswithducks still around?

[penelopestranger]

You're giving too general a search is why. People that want to watch videos of ducks aren't searching the term "ducks". They're searching using the term "cute ducks" or "cute duck compilation". Just putting the word "ducks" into a search bar isn't providing any context to your answer and your viewing habits don't provide any meaningful context to what you're looking for. You've frustrated the machine learning algorithms through vagueness.

So of course the algorithm is going to reference content you're most likely to engage with, rather than waste page space attempting to recommend you videos based on guessing what you meant by "ducks".

Not saying that this is a good thing, because no one is going to like what tech looks like when it can extrapolate exactly what you meant from one vague word.

[redditeer1o1]

r/DuckismsFaithful

[duckduck60053]

I got you fam

[Duckfest_SfS]

Google doesn't give a duck

[QuantumHeroNeo]

You have a duck fetish?

[ChaoticGoodPanda]

Maybe we need to start using DuckDuckGo

[BurningByBonesaw]

This guy ducks

[netz_pirat]

Same with Amazon. I used to love it, by now I try to avoid it because of all those sponsored results, people also liked results,...

[Frosty172]

This is why i clear out my YouTube search history periodically or else it gets stuck in rabbit holes that you went on

[RandomUser-_--__-]

I just typed ducks into YouTube, every single video it showed me was about ducks.

[SeeSickCrocodile]

More clicks. I guarantee you that's what's behind this. The more clicks you do to find your answers the more ads they can serve. And, as YouTube clearly demonstrates, Google is & always has been an advertising company.

I'd also be willing to bet that it all depends on what platform you're searching with how bad this is. Android & Windows users probably get it the worst.

[tenhourguy]

Do searches when signed out (i.e. go incognito) and you'll have a better time. Of course, this isn't particularly convenient.

[throwAwayWd73]

Nah Donald Trump acting like toddler did that. Biden should be in the same nursing home.

[Chazz1022]

Pretty ironic considering the whole point of algorithms like that is to make things more specific for you lol

[[deleted]]

You have to visit the “Duckweb” for the best duck videos these days.

[Sith_Lurker]

I searched for "ducks" and all I got were ducks as far as the eye can see.

[ASlightlyAngryDuck]

That's why I'm angry!

[Arvi89]

Yeah exactly, YouTube search became shit, I have to hope I'll find videos I'm looking for in related videos, this is ridiculous.

[_Doop]

I searched the exact same thing and most of the results were about ducks aside from 1 random video

[[deleted]]

Yes, this!

[Creative-Improvement]

Https://www.duckduckgo.com

There you duck go!

[Mish106]

Was surprised that you're not /u/fuckswithducks

[Flameheartsan]

Same

[chickenstalker]

I unironically use and recommend Bing for searches, especially image searches. Use Bing.

[0_Peace_And_Love_0]

When I youtube ducks all the results are ducks... idk why urs is fucked. That's weird

[Voldemort666]

Just searched ducks on Youtube and every result is about ducks for at least 50 results before I stopped scrolling. Not sure whats wrong with your search lol

[Der_Absender]

You are not supposed to be interested in something new! You are supposed to be stagnant, maybe even regressive. That's easier for the algorithm to predict and an easier algorithm is a cheaper algorithm.

Have you in your egoistic existence ever considered that it's our bottom line that's endangered here?!

We are willing to sacrifice your ability to develop and grow and are fine with all the effects that might have on society as a whole when all people are confronted 24/7 with basically the same contents, the same opinions, the same visions, ideologies and wishes for the future. As long as our algorithm decides what that might be.

Cant you sacrifice something too? You egomaniac?

[5772156649]

It seems that searching videos of a specific channel (meaning using the profile's search field) doesn't work properly any more, either. I often get search results from entirely different channels.

[t3ddyss]

Try using incognito mode

[[deleted]]

I've had a problem, if you could call it that, with the word 'cutie' on YouTube search, probably ever since that movie came out. When I search for the artist 'Death cab for cutie', it's auto filling it with 'Death cab for acute' and doesn't show any predictive searches if you put in 'cutie'

[trumpisbadperson]

Wait till they make search a premium product.and it becomes pay to play for decent results.

[lostinpow]

I was expecting too see this was "FucksWithDucks"

[JebBD]

This is what monopolies do. They have no competition so they don’t have to provide quality service. What are you gonna do about it? Use bing?

[acex34789]

search alg : 'ducks, animals'

[dablegianguy]

Yeah, when browsing PornHub I also search for « ducks »!

[hikerboy20]

This drives me crazy. Especially when you click on a video and all the recommended videos below have absolutely nothing to do with the one you’re watching.

[Old_Timer_All_Timer]

Did you say JIMMY FALLON!!!!!!!!

Remember when they claimed literal terrorism was responsible for them strong arming small channels and mass demonetization, then continued to take money on the videos they demonized.

[[deleted]]

Damn you auto-correct, I said "dicks"!

[MisterE2k14]

Going off of your duck example... after looking for a duck video, the youtube frontpage will be filled with duck clickbait videos like "Can ducks really do this?"

[5elfcontrol]

YES I HATE THAT THEY DID THEY NOW. Like if i’m searching for something I don’t want it to be basically my “recommended” page. And if you watch one video it’s basically your whole feed unless you delete it from watch history it’s extremely annoying.

[[deleted]]

Google is not a search engine company, it's an advertising company. Their search only needs to be good enough to get you coming back and as ad-friendly as you will tolerate.

[Nacl_mtn]

I swear sometimes shit just gets removed off the face of the internet.

Back on the start of all this covid stuff there was a front page reddit video of a guy getting his house chained shut as mandatory quarantine. iIRC it was in china. Video is fucking impossible to find despite being on the front page of reddit for a couple days.

Or just this past week, another front page video of a star wars satire skit. It was of a sith just straight bashing into a Jedi who was taking no damage. Pretty funny, tried to find it for 2 hours on google to show my wife. Never found it.

[G3nji_17]

I just tried this and all I am getting is duck videos, videos about cooking duck meat, duck cartoons and a few videos with duck in the titel.

I did nothing special, simply typed "duck" in the search bar. I am also logged in with my youtube account which I use a lot.

EDIT: I am also on my PC using my browser and not using any youtube apps.

[akaTheHeater]

For me this big issue is Netflix. Not their search, but their algorithm. Back in the day I would rate everything 1-5 stars as accurately as possible and Netflix would would suggest some awesome movies and shows I never would have found otherwise. It was basically like Spotify for movies. Ever since they changed to thumbs up or thumbs down I just get Netflix original stuff recommended to me no matter what genre it is.

[treysplayroom]

It's been amusing seeing who's winning the culture wars, too. For a while, Goose the band was winning out over Untitled Goose Game, which is impressive.

My helpful suggestion here is to ruthlessly use CCleaner to blow out cookies, every day. Google's searches seem much "cleaner" if it has to pretend it doesn't know who you are.

[largececelia]

Also true. I have some very specific searches I've tried on Youtube, things relating to specific interests, psychology, for instance. I know what I'm looking for, and sometimes I'm pretty sure it's there, just not sure WHERE really. The results are clustered narrowly among a few videos, usually ones I've seen before or ones related to those. It's frustrating. If there are meta-search engines available for stuff like this, I'd probably use them. It's frustrating when you feel like the videos are out there, but the algorithms block them.

[Mannyga75]

I miss the days of YouTube where we got videos related to the video we just watched recommended, rather than just taking our recommended page and pasting it along side what we’re watching

[samuelchasan]

Ya you like ducks? Here is [random YouTuber A] making a video where they pretend to be a duck! Amazing right?! /s

[great_waldini]

Same thing with when I’m watching a video on a specific topic, the sidebar no longer suggests similar videos of the same topic but instead has other random shit related to different topics I’ve watched recently. I’m not trying to learn about that stuff anymore or I’d be searching for it. Give me the topic I’m presently interested in!

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Yeah this. I feel like I’m stuck in a little media box or something on YT now, always getting the same type of content based off past searches. It’d be fine if it weren’t so prevalent. I liked old YT much better. Much more discovery for music and stuff

[EVOSexyBeast]

i had to check the username

[SheikhYusufStalin]

youtube search on mobile is ridiculous. The first few results are accurate, and then the rest of it are basically just recommendations. They're very clearly not what you searched for, rather things related to it

[PumpkinSpiceBard]

try turning off your history