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Re:Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically? by ur-whale on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @03:39AM (#32328730)
> Their search has got pretty bad I've noticed

YT search was never good (that I can recall).

When I want to find content on YT, I use Google search with a site restrict [1].

Infinitely better.

I invite you all to do the same and forget the YT search box.

[1] something like : life of Albert Einstein site:youtube.com

Re:Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically? by GekkePrutser on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:56PM (#32334922)
Very ironic that you have to use Google to get decent results in YouTube. The knowledge is in the same company just not applied consistently.
Re:Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically? by ur-whale on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @03:18PM (#32335711)
As is often forgotten on HN, a company is nothing but a bunch of people, each with their own incentives and political dominions to defend.

We like to think of a company as one entity and assign to it some sort of anthropomorphic aspect, but that's just a dumbed-down simplification our minds like to make to make dealing with the world easier.

Especially for a company as large as Google, were political infighting between product verticals are a documented problem.

In that regard, it is not ironic at all, there is no such thing as consistency in such a large human organization. Hell, even the army is not capable of doing this properly.