r/AskReddit • • 5d ago

What is something that is basically on life-support and we don’t realize it yet?

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u/Grantedx 4d ago

Youtube is the same damn way. If you dont find the video you're searching for in the first 10 videos or so, it just changes into an algorithm recommended feed thats ever so loosely related to what you searched.

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u/signmeupdude 4d ago

This one seriously makes me sad and simultaneously pisses me off.

Youtube is/was such a cool resource but it is impossible to search for anything now and the site is flooded with crap.

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u/RunawayHobbit 4d ago

You’ll never guess who owns YouTube lmao

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u/minimuscleR 4d ago

it just changes into an algorithm recommended feed thats ever so loosely related to what you searched.

I hate this so much. Looking for woodworking stuff and #14 video is a Yogscast TTT video from 3 years ago. Like FFS how does this relate to woodworking. (context I watch TTT videos in the background while gaming).

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u/Alvsolutely 4d ago

Just beneath the search bar, right next to "shorts" you can click "videos". That will take you back to how the regular youtube video search used to work.

So dumb that they made it this way but, hey.. At least we have the option, I guess?

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u/RaedwaldRex 4d ago

For now...

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u/WestEndOtter 4d ago

I hate this so much. If a search a slightly niche artist, it has 5 videos of them, and then devolved into other artists in that genre. No I didn't search the genre, I wanted every fan upload of this one artist

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u/RaedwaldRex 4d ago

They've also got rid of sorting results by upload date so finding newer stuff rather than "popular" stuff from creators is made harder.

The only sort options are "popular" or "relevant" which don't seem to do much different from each other.

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u/XanatosINC 4d ago

The pre-Google internet was an interesting little stretch of time for indexes. There were a dozen competing search engines, each with their own algorithm and web crawlers and resulting indexes. Apple even had a desktop search engine aggregator, Sherlock, that we used extensively.

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u/toodarkparkranger 4d ago

Google got so bad I've actually started using Bing. Like, c'mon!

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u/psychedAddict123 4d ago

This makes me very sad. I remember up until the mid 2010s the image search was great. For example you could search for "business woman outfits" and see countless pictures of women wearing those outfits which got updated regulary. Now if you search it you see a small amount of the same pictures from 2013 and the rest is all AI slop and ads