7 tweets · October 2022 · 19 likes · 0 retweets · read on Twitter
yo @YouTube your search function is EMBARRASSING I just tried to find my own video "The Evolutionary Universe Becoming Aware of Itself" and I searched [malcolm ocean evolutionary] and it wasn't in the results if you can't even match channel+title... youtube.com/watch?v=uXfmn8…
it would benefit search engines a lot to be able to easily toggle modes between - "I'm exploring, show me what you got" - "I'm looking for something in particular I remember seeing" oh wait I noticed this already:
for youtube in particular, I think that the "exploring" mode should maaaaaybe favor popular videos over closer matches it claims it's already sorting by relevance 🤨 oh yeah? THIS 👇 is a more relevant result? no "malcolm" here. y u think I use that term? youtube.com/watch?v=wHAGeO…
meanwhile it showed THIS 👇 video, which... has 1.1M views & doesn't mention ANY of the keywords I searched for. you're sorting by "relevance"? BULLSHIT. seriously is there a product designer at YT willing to have some integrity and rename the sort algo? youtube.com/watch?v=IXyP-H…
like I kinda get if for profit reasons you're required to feed us shit that's not what we looked for. it's slimy and evil but sure, you've got incentives but please hide an ACTUAL "relevance" sort under filters, and call the default one "default" or something
but also, in terms of profit, I PAY FOR YOUTUBE. you can't make more money by selling me more ads! and I would pay several times more if you built a version that didn't just not have ads but actually was built with me in mind as a customer
at some point I'll do a full "what if we made youtube good tho?" rant (probably as a video 😅) but now is not that time. this rant occurred because my work flow was disrupted by it being hard to find my own goddamn video, and I'm going back to that 😤