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What got me really mad is searching your own history. There's this "search watch history" on the https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

I remember watching video that contains certain word in the title. A minecraft contraption from a small channel (4 videos, 93 subs). I searched that word in the title. But youtube can't find it. Fortunately, I saved the world download that listed in the video with the name of the channel. So I searched the channel name + the word, it still can't find it.

So I searched only the channel name instead, in the search page. It works, and checking their videos, youtube mark one of them as watched. With the exact same title I searched. But it didn't show me in the history search. WTF youtube.

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Youtube search is also weird in that it has a hard time finding something directly but will find it and put it it in the suggested videos feed after you have given up. 4 or 5 videos later. (shrugs) hell if I know.

But really, if I ever see a really good video I will download it. I try not to be too much of a digital horder, so it has to be really good. But their search has failed me enough times that it is worth it.

Google.com is a lot better at searching YouTube than YouTube is at searching YouTube

I prefer googling in duckduckgo

DDG was the best at searching videos until a year ago, idk what changed but know is worse than youtube search

Duckduck going?

no, googling

use the term, let trademark expire

Waddle-waddling

gemini @YouTube is decent too.

Amazon is the same now. I can't find books on it that I know for sure exist on it. It always pushes something else first.

Search by ISBN works as expected for books

thanks.

Perhaps this is due to Youtube's alternate titles or A/B/C testing scheme feature?

YT videos have a canonical title, but can have other one assigned randomly (as well as alternate thumbnails). If you're in the B group you might have gotten the B title, but search might only look through canonical titles?

I suspect YT-Search is broken by intention

There is no way that this billion company isnt/cant be able to build a working search for its video titles&texts.

>I remember watching video that contains certain word in the title

You could use youtube-dl to download the all automatic subtitles those videos and then search.

I seem to remember at one point there was a bug (or "bug") where watches wouldn't be tracked if you used an adblocker.

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