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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by plausible on Sunday January 19, 2020 @12:36PM (#22092639)
> They seem to go to great lengths to make sure that your results page has something on it by any means necessary

You just described how YouTube's search has been working lately. When you type in a somewhat obscure keyword - or any keyword, really - the search results include not only the videos that match, but videos related to your search. And searches related to your keywords. Sometimes it even shows you a part of the "for you" section that belongs to the home page! The search results are so cluttered now.

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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by brownbat on Sunday January 19, 2020 @01:38PM (#22093035)
Searching gibberish to try to get as few results as possible.

I got down to one with "qwerqnalkwea"

"AEWRLKJAFsdalkjas" returns nothing, but youtube helpfully replaces that search with the likewise nonsensical "AEWR LKJAsdf lkj as" which is just full of content.

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