In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

Re:In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most ... by jsjohnst on Saturday September 15, 2018 @10:44PM (#17997052)

You may find it terrible (I don’t think it’s great, but it’s usually at least mediocre for me), but Vimeo has virtually nothing. Also, Vimeo doesn’t seem to rank well in search engines either. So yes, even if YouTube was universally terrible as you claim for organic discovery (it isn’t), it’s still better than basically nothing.

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Re:In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most ... by GW150914 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @11:01PM (#17997103)

I think “better than nothing” is the perfect way to describe it. Almost anything else would be better, but there is effectively nothing else. I would point out that when talking about how Youtube does well on search engines though, it can’t hurt that it has that little connection to Google, the premier search engine.

I’m glad that you’ve had better luck with using it for discovery though, any tips on how how to get that to work?

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Re:In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most ... by jsjohnst on Saturday September 15, 2018 @11:19PM (#17997152)

> it can’t hurt that it has that little connection to Google

Except YouTube ranks very well in DDG, Bing, and Yahoo too.

> any tips on how how to get that to work?

1) I don’t sign into YouTube unless I am uploading a video and I sign out when done.

2) I almost always search for something of a technical nature.

3) If I search for something “main stream popular” on YouTube, I usually do it in an incognito window.

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