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.
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.
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.