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Search on YouTube is truly terrible now. 8/10 results are sponsored ads, other things you may like, watch it again, etc. Like wtf I literally searched something else.
It's actually really really shitty. A search result shouldn't show just general recommendations and definitely shouldn't ignore your query in favor of showing ads for bigger videos completely unrelated.
That actually makes the platform completely garbage.
YouTube is just public broadcast TV now anyways and needs to start being regulated as such.
Is this a power user problem somehow?
They had to’ve [A/B test] optimized it to the absolute stay-on-YouTube-as-long-as-possible max, if that’s not being too generous.
Does the general public disregard their original search intent often enough by clicking unrelated videos that it makes sense to spam us like that? Lemmings hate it for sure, but the data must show it’s beneficial… wondering if I’m missing something.
Oh absolutely I bet it works to distract people to click on a different video and fall into a whole of watching more. I think it's easy to forget about the mass of lonely sad people who don't talk to anyone or do much other than eat and then turn on YouTube till it's time to sleep.
Easier to feed their addiction if you just make it easy to get the drug.
I fucking hate how they mix in "popular" videos with your search results.
Like, the first few results are related, then there's a few that are completely unrelated but "popular". Then they go back to showing related results.
They don't even try to differentiate between the two. It's scummy as hell and yet another nail in the coffin for youtube.
that's google for you. "Don't be evil!" ^TM
They've changed that to "don't be evil, obviously"
It is shit but if you click on the videos button after the search it's a lot more like what it used to be. Not completely though.