YouTube's website search isn't useful anymore, is there an alternative?

It's a bigger paradigm shift in the tech industry. Search is one of the remaining ideas that empower users, because it does what users tell it to do. In the new paradigm users have no agency, instead the platform builds persona profiles and tells users what they should do. It's very similar to how farms manage cattle for profit.

Besides, what is digm in paradigm?

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/

Is it just me or YT also has this curious habit of pushing and promoting electoral politics video content more and more despite knowing full well that you don't watch such content?

`You searched for “car review”, but you’ve watched a lot of super Mario videos lately. How about you watch more of those instead of what you searched for?’

Thanks google.

Numbers apparently points to people being so distracted on the internet they forget what they where doing and instead of helping, google just leans into it.

A couple of my goto options are DuckDuckGo's video search or using the 'site:youtube.com' search operator trick for Google Search. YouTube's search and recommendations are largely useless now. YT just seems to endlessly shovel clickbait.

I luv-luv-luv userscript:

Block Youtube Users

> Hide videos of blacklisted users/channels and comments

https://greasyfork.org/scripts/11057

It's like GHHbD but from within Youtube.

Invidious (alt. Frontend), NewPipe (android), FreeTube (PC). I use those since long ago. There's LibRedirect web extension for your web browser to find good invidious instances too. Cheers!

If you go to Filter > Video, it gives you a more traditional search.

Additionally, YouTube can be thought of as the second most used search engine. Which in return means that the built-in search is now up against Google, Bing and whatever else - and most other engines can be restricted to just search YouTube using the site: operator.

the majority of my search results now is just "things I like", that are in absolutely no way related to the content I'm looking for, interspersed with occasional video related to what I'm actually after.

For example, I looked for a car review because I'm buying a new car, and 80% of the search results are guitar related content, because I play guitar and that's the vast majority of the content I normally watch.

They seem to have completely missed the point of SEARCH. It's meant to be a tool for creating targeted results. If I just wanted random content to pass my time, the landing page already does that.

I just tried this out because it sounds believable. I watch _a lot_ of youtube. and it's content is pretty focused. I searched, "ikea review" and it showed me exclusively ikea reviews.

what I have noticed now and in the past is that if you search something that does not have high matches, it just throws at you unrelated garbage that you normally watch.

Google search is the answer! It works way better than YouTube search. There's an option you can click that gives you only video results.

I am sure SHORTS you can find SHORTS some interesting SHORTS ikea furniture You just have to believe SHORTS

Try this github repo: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle, there is a Youtube section there.

I just search on Google with site:YouTube.com

Havou tried pipe-viewer or piped/invidious?