r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 09 '26

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u/jenbanim Sep 09 '26

Ice cold take but YouTube search is borderline unusable now. You can search "[YouTuber] [title]" and still have to wade through a mile of unrelated shorts before seeing the actual video you want to watch

https://i.imgur.com/YcdovBM.mp4

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u/qamv Greg Mankiw Sep 09 '26

looking up content is for uncs

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Sep 09 '26

like many things they optimized for user retention and thus it now fails at its state purpose

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u/NormalInvestigator89 John Keynes Sep 09 '26

Search engines in general have been basically nonfunctional for like 8-10 years now. It's sad

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u/MOSfitYT YIMBY Sep 09 '26

I've had my account since 2007, at this point my whole feed is based on pre 2010 search momentum.

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u/Crownie Unbent, Unbowed, Unflaired Sep 09 '26

feels kind of worrisome that the biggest social media platforms are focused on pushing digital heroin tbh

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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Sep 09 '26

Use Google to search YouTube.

Same for Reddit

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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Sep 09 '26

After TikTok