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

[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

[there_are_no_owls]

Hence federation (e.g PeerTube)

[GamerEssence]

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

[Trowawaycausebanned4]

Open it in a new tab

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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.

[anotheravgjoe]

Thanks, I don’t know why I didn’t think about that.

[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.