YT search results also show results that have literally nothing to do with the query. Stop showing me videos I watched previously when I'm literally in the midst of trying to find something specific.
For me it very frequently loads good results, then reloads the results again but with much worse/completely irrelevant results, and I see the original results only for a split second.
It also doesn't do that second load when I f5/enter the url directly.
It happens to me frequently that I want to find a video I watched previously but didn't bookmark. If they hid all the videos I've watched before I'd never find them.
That's not what they're referring to. It will show videos completely unrelated to your search query.
A few moments ago I searched for "Porter Robinson Ludwig" to continue watching a 2 hour stream where Porter Robinson guides Ludwig through making a beat. The 6th result in my search list is a video I've watched before, "Pro Players Play 50€ decks" from a Magic The Gathering channel. Nothing to do with Porter Robinson or Ludwig or music. It's just there's because I've watched it once before.
If I type in the search query of "games that think more gameplay mechanics equals more fun" after just a few videos, the videos in search switch to being completely unrelated and are labeled either "You might also like this", or "Previously Watched". Hilariously, "Porter Robinson (Teaches Ludwig How to Produce Music)" is video is #6. #7 is "Streamer Fakes Blindfold Speedrun for Clout". The video by ProZD with that exact title does not appear in the first 30 results, and that's when I quit counting.
No, like, the search will sometimes deliberately insert a couple of videos from your watch history in a section labeled "Previously watched". It's not just that it's surfacing previously seen videos which match the search; it's surfacing videos from your viewing history instead of videos which match your search.
This 100%. It’s so infuriating trying to browse search results but not even halfway down the page it just assumes that I have the attention span of a goldfish and that I would rather look at their list of recommendations for videos to watch that have absolutely nothing to do with my search query.
Good grief the people in charge of YouTube and Google have put their products in complete free fall because that’s the only way they can see a non-zero velocity.
