I agree with everything you said. Google is completely useless for searching; now I just use it as a glorified website URL finder.
YouTube search is also completely useless now.
YouTube search is also completely useless now.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=path+of+exile+2...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ramen+restauran...
When I search these three things the first 5 results are exactly what I want.
What exactly are you searching of the time that it's "completely useless"? Genuine question.
Try searching for a particular video, one that is not super popular. What I want is a complete list of results that match my query. What I get is YouTube trying to recommend videos to me.
If you try to describe a non-popular video it just becomes a crapshoot on what to give you if there's no word/tag watching. You'd need some hint of the channel name or something. The volume of low viewership videos is incredibly high.
Can you give me a real example of something you've tried to do?
This is unfortunately not true. I have a little channel and there have been times when searching for the exact title of some of my videos did not return it in the results at all (searching with quotes or not). Cannot reproduce now because the search algorithm has now started liking me.
For example, searching for climbing comp videos and getting a completely unrelated video about some new tech gadget released within the last couple days from a random popular content creators makes no sense.
Clearly, it works for Google (content creators intentionally make click-baity thumbnails and titles because Google encourages it), but it's user hostile: it's designed to suck you into a vortex, which is not what the user was intending in the first place.
That said, all content platforms do this right now, so my intention isn't singling out Google. It's frustrating nonetheless.
Now that the JD Vance podcast is out, that’s the first result; then it’s all MSM. Wow.