How Do I Get Rid of Search Results from India?
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You'll see this is something even Hindi newspapers do. I pulled these two articles from the front pages of the Dainik Jagran and Dainik Bhaskar, two of the bigger Hindi newspapers: [1] and [2]. Very little of the content, except for the title is in Hindi. This is so that people can search for content using English searches.
[1] https://www.bhaskar.com/bihar/patna/news/prashant-kishor-pol... [2] https://www.jagran.com/politics/state-up-budget-2020-yogi-ad...
This is what the sites look like for me: https://imgur.com/a/h6U1Un1
(Basically Anjunadeep, Patrice O' Neal, and Batman :-) ).
I believe their recommendation ML is top-notch and they keep improving it. For example, it seems to have finally learned that I absolutely effing hate "reaction" videos (it used to struggle with that ~ 1 year ago).
Some of the example -
> thanks man, i thought my pc was infected with an indain virus. sounds like its not only me ....
> İ sicked of fucking indi*n videos on youtube.
> This is so true, I totally hate those indian video
I feel that the real problem is understanding the Indian accent.
Well there's many more than one. "The Indian accent" is really only a trope on American TV shows.
For instance, your username seems Indian/Bengali (sorry if you're not, just making a point) and I'm Indian/Punjabi and I bet we sound really different. Bengalis stress the first syllable in a word, Punjabis the second; Bengalis stretch the -ee- sound a bit, Punjabis truncate it especially when trailing. These are stereotypes, but they work well enough to place another Indian's state of origin instantly if you just hear their voice on the phone.
I watch some Chinese / Japanese channels but I know what I'm going into before hand. Because both the channel name and the title would have hyrogliphs.
I wouldn't mind if I had unlimited data. But I can download 10 tutorial videos based on their title only for 3-5 to be Hindi.
Google search has been proven to forget old excellent articles. I think this amnesia is happening to YouTube as well.
We all have English keyboards and use it all day(I don't know whom you want to blame for this.)
So it's easy for us to read and write in English. We even type Hindi in English. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinglish)
See how the YouTuber put Hindi in the title of that video? That's what I'm talking about
Btw, it looks like a good problem to solve. It is not easy to ML millions of videos to identify spoken language, but I guess google already has means to do it as they provide closed caption.
Also, the YouTubers in the comments seems to be searching for IT topics, which is heavily dominated by Indians
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bkz+reduction
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Trwclh_Z4
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EapIVDlhvQU
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cicTG3zeVQ
---- The scrollbar of my browser cuts here ----
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i9BCsHxofE
...
* random may or may not have been influenced by Dual EC
Sounds like a missed opportunity to me.
Nothing about Functional Programming, Big data, even Theory of Computation (that was mine :D )
There is nothing innately Indian about Quora. Indians are just overrepresented on it.
I'd always figured it was an attempt at Youtube SEO - matching keywords in different languages with the same content.
In my observation not all videos have translated titles, I'd say about 20~30%. So my theory is that it is either some A/B test from YT, or that the channel owner can opt in/out of the automatic translations.
(Bad for two reasons: (1) badly translated titles, sometimes hilariously so, and (2) the algorithm recommends me videos I have already watched. I guess (2) is because I don't usually watch the last 20 seconds, the static "my last video was", whatever it's called, so YouTube must think I haven't watched the video. Most times, the red gauge below the video thumbnail shows half-full even though I've watched the video minus these 20 seconds. There's still room for improvements...)
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3qsVzHeUt5_cPpcRtoaJQ/vid...
There is value in being able to reliably filter by language. After all, if you can't understand a lecture video, then there's little point in watching it.
But how some of the commenters choose to express their thoughts comes across more as "I hate people from India" than "This is inconvenient".
But, the BlockTube extension from Chrome can be configured to hide channels/videos based on Unicode regexps. An equally honked off YT user asked about this problem on the project's Github page and got some suggestions.
Also, some might not know this, but English is pretty widely spoken in India. It’s common to come across words from many languages, including English, interspersed in conversations.
And also, my YouTube is filled with these elaborate cooking videos from China and east Asia. Tech content from Germany, that I can’t understand. It’s never really bothered me though.
In general, it’s accurate to say that I’ve never come across great videos because YouTube recommended them to me.
A bit more than common! If you watch Indian (or at least Hindi) TV, you'll understand about every third word. When I was there a lot of youth would either never use, or even not know what common words were in their native language, say words like problem or college.
That does not mean that they have a good grasp of English though. Vocabulary and sentence structure are different beasts entirely, and had I not known the native language, I would have had much more difficulty understanding English/Hinglish - lots of direct translations just didn't work in English. This is common for pretty much anyone that learns a language, though.
I'm a little confused at how people are getting these bad recommendations from YouTube, because my recommendations - at least on my Samsung TV's YouTube app - are mostly spot on. It knows I'm interested in music production, long form studio tours and interviews, 8-bit retro gear & repair, and that's pretty much all it recommends. It can infer that from my subscriptions, but seems to go more by what I actually watch & like.
I assume you are clicking like on the videos that you enjoyed? Do you treat YouTube like a spam filter and rate things as "Not Interested" if it recommends something wrong? Or maybe Google's algorithms are just really really terrible outside of US / UK / Canada / Aus?
On the other hand, my recommendations on the mobile app aren't as good. It's almost as if YouTube treats each client as a separate account/context, even though I'm signed in on all of them.
I do those things often, but not all the time. They usually recommend every single video from a random channel, if you happen to watch just one of their videos. So it’s not all the popular Chinese cooking videos, rather all the videos from this one channel alone. That sort of stuff. Almost like they want some people to get large followings and become influencers, because it’s more profitable to have influencers on your platform rather than having many great videos from different creators.
In a way I’m happy that YouTube recommendations are not so great. That way at least, I’ll not get hooked on the platform and be even more of a time wasting failure than I already am.
I've only gone through the ones I could see on the first page, I personally think that OP and a lot of the people there are just frustrated with their Youtube search results and there's a lot more hate for Google's apparent callousness there than for India or Indian creators.
> But how some of the commenters choose to express their thoughts comes across more as "I hate people from India" than "This is inconvenient".
There's always gonna be those people in every single community. I found the page hilarious, wonder if I've become desensitised.
Violent crime is also a grim reality we all have to live with, even if things are as a whole improving (statistically).
> I found the page hilarious, wonder if I've become desensitised.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. Maybe it can come in handy (e.g. easier to remain calm in a bad situation). I hope neither of us ever has to find out.
Neither Hindi nor English are my mother tongue. Between the two I am more comfortable in English although I speak a lot of Hindi at home. Some may argue that Hindi is the national language of India. It certainly is a national language. It also happens to be a regional language of some parts of North and central India that by happenstance got branded as a national one.
A filter to choose the spoken language used in the video would be very nice indeed.
I use Google products in a Firefox container which is always logged in to my Google account, which should contain enough information for them to understand that I read English best and would prefer prices to be shown in Euros (or any of a list of maybe 10 other currencies before I would consider dirhams), but there you go.
What really annoys me is that Google in general is pushing German content into my face, despite the fact that my OS, my browser-settings, my Google profiles and my search queries are 100% English. Just the fact that i am physically located in Germany seems to be enough for them.
I started switching to Google-alternative products almost 1.5 years ago because i am tired of them.
You used to be able to do something like google.com/ncr to get US English Google but that doesn't seem to work anymore :( Too many people thinking they know what they want, I guess.
...what WE want...
I blame Apple. They started the trend and everyone copied.
There is[1], but no one uses it. At this point its primary purpose is probably just browser fingerprinting.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
I don't understand the complaints about the English accent being bad either, because there isn't an "ideal" English accent. It's just different. They also come off as extremely entitled. Guess what, everyone accustomed to a non-UK/US accent has to get used to them to actually understand pretty much any content on the web.
Google Search seems to ignore the user's preferred language choice from the HTTP Accept-Language header and (for a not logged-in user) default to whatever can be inferred from the IP address/location but at least this behavior can be overriden.
Looks like a real market need here, although maybe limited to videos in a particular segment (I searched for "Angular tutorial" for this example), because somehow I don't get these Indian hits at all -- despite being Indian and living in India.