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YouTube Search Quality

The cluster centers on discussions about the effectiveness and shortcomings of YouTube's search engine, including complaints about irrelevant results, spam, poor relevance after initial matches, and comparisons to general web search.

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Sample Comments

d0mine • Oct 26, 2024 • View on HN

Unlike the web, youtube has a functional search ;)

anthonypasq • Aug 30, 2023 • View on HN

youve never used youtube as a search engine?

ayoisaiah • Jan 2, 2024 • View on HN

I'm looking for something like this, but for YouTube search results / recommendations

nablaone • Jan 11, 2022 • View on HN

Youtube gives me a better search results. Esp. for non-IT related searches.

aero-glide2 • Jan 22, 2022 • View on HN

YouTube's search isn't very good.

dredmorbius • Jul 21, 2018 • View on HN

Youtube search is actually pretty good. Toss in the terms suggested.

aero-glide2 • Nov 30, 2021 • View on HN

Imo YouTube search is really bad. First 5 results are related to your query, rest are just the most popular.

Narishma • Apr 23, 2025 • View on HN

Youtube search is similar. It shows a couple of results related to your query, then a whole bunch of irrelevant videos.

evex • Apr 22, 2018 • View on HN

would "search youtube videos for words and phrases", be better?

reportgunner • Nov 3, 2023 • View on HN

What about youtube search ? The first five results are related and then you get some npc garbage that "you may like".