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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by gsich on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @08:31AM (#18542104)
Same BS answer was made when Google discontinued their "instant search" feature. You could type and search results would pop up while you were typing.
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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by kibwen on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:22AM (#18542944)
Presumably discontinued because it ate into their ability to show ads, which means that this sounds like a fruitful opportunity for differentiation by search engines that don't rely on ad revenue.
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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by stickfigure on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:16PM (#18548732)
...or they discontinued it because it was a crap experience. I turned off "instant search" in every browser I used. It was awful.
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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by gsich on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @05:30AM (#18550512)
Maybe. But that was not the reason given.
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