Went to YouTube to find the George HW Bush baseball meme. The search term pops up but the result is nowhere to be seen. Eight videos of bush doing the first pitch and then snl sketches. Went to google, similarly no results. Went to duckduckgo and got it immediately.

Like shits unusable, if someone dislikes a video and has money they absolutely can get it taken off the search systems most people use.

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I use youtube a lot, and yeah, the search function went to absolute dogshit over the past few months.

    I've also noticed that whenever I watch any sort of leftist content now, the top recommended vid will be something from CNN or MSNBC or whatever. And I don't even live in the US.

    • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      i remember having a lot of trouble finding the video of young biden saying desegregation bussing creates a racial jungle.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      They pretty obviously boost "legit" sources to combat disinformation and Russian lies and shit. It started with just medical/nutrition data early on in COVID and now it's morphed to damn near anything you search for.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yep, it was an announced change, and since then almost every leftist video will autoplay John Oliver (if it was comedy), MSNBC (if it wasn't) or often Tucker Fucking Carlson (if YouTube is feeling sadistic, or if the topic is dominated by right wingers, like CRT or something)

        Like imagine, just imagine trying to "deradicalize" your content by switching users from some harmless YouTube socdem to insane white nationalist great replacement theory Tucker Fucking Carlson.

    • Weebus [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Google is getting bad but youtube is absolutely fucking unusable. The search function literally does not work. If you search something you get about 12 results based on the query, and then the rest is half algorithmically determined to be "similar", and the other half, most egregiously, is "for you" algorithm completely unrelated to the search query. I cannot fathom how anybody is okay with this. If I search something, I want to SEARCH for it. If I wanted your shitty algorithm I would go to the front page, which I never fucking do.

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah it's so fucking bad. If they had a "see more results" button or whatever, then fine I guess, but you don't even get that.

        First time it happened I genuinely thought something was broken, but no.