YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations

Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by Waterluvian on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:40PM (#32919657)

I feel like I also learned the other day that Google’s search is bad like this too. That it’ll say there’s millions of results and just stop after like 400.

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Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @07:19AM (#32923468)

HN's search through Algolia is similar.

An unqualified search reports (at this writing) just north of 30 million results (30,000,229). It will display only 34 pages' worth of results, I believe 1,000.

See: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...> Final page: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=33&prefix=false&q...>

As discussed recently on HN, the match count is useful information even where all matching results are not displayed as it indicates whether or not a query is generic.

Contrast search: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> (one result as of this writing).

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Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by JohnFen on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:56AM (#32927021)

It's really weird, isn't it, how much Google managed to degrade the one thing it historically did the best?

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