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You can try to avoid irrelevant search results by using advanced search filters like "intitle:" or "-" to exclude specific words.

I made a simple YouTube search form with search filters that work well on YouTube: https://playlists.at/youtube/search/

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Interesting; my experience has differed: I noticed since late 2022 (last year) Youtube Search was essentially ignoring my exact queries, giving only the first two or so result matching the query - the rest of the results aren't even marginally related.

Worse--this behavior continues, and has gotten so bad that today searching is all but useless to me.

FYI- Your portal gave me good laugh on how it finds 'exact' Titles: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+intitle%3Afugi...

It works!

Exactly! It's so infuriating to search for a song cover and instead of being able to discover indie musician covers or rare live recordings, I get the studio version + 2 results, then I get redirected to 'related' songs.

I tried it with:

Jeep "cj7 cylinder head"

and got videos about soft tops.

Editing the search term to:

jeep "cj7" "cylinder head"

got me actual results

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