To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by tracker1 on Monday July 15, 2019 @06:09PM (#20445761)

I find the single hardest thing to search for these days is anything more than a few months old on YouTube... They hate older videos, it feels like. Beyond that, I keep seeing suggestions on new content from years ago... it's just weird.

I know it's not google proper, but I'd guess a significant number of their searches are specific to youtube.

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Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by brunoff on Monday July 15, 2019 @07:24PM (#20446217)

I believe they try to put newer content first in order to make a more fair distribution of views. If you order results by popularity on yt, you will see that it uses just an "order by view count desc" (no relationship with like/dislike ratio), which is bad because it keeps popular some not so good quality videos published on first yt years.

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Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by tracker1 on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @05:02PM (#20453873)

Worse still, imho is that it may not be a popular video I'm looking for. I really wish they'd factor in a "I have viewed" for results.

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