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

Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by autoexec on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:02AM (#32921657)

Funny that youtube is basically the opposite of google's search which will often only show you results that are relevant to top/recent stories making it very difficult to get results about anything else.

It doesn't even have to be that recent in some cases. Searching for "Sandy Hook Elementary" along with just about any other search term is going to give you a page with results about a shooting that took place a decade ago. Searching for a proper noun when they are the top story of the day is pretty much only going to give you that one story.

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Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by brigandish on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:17PM (#32934442)

I use DDG now but I wish the search tools weren't just last week, last month, last year but greater than a week/month/year so I could discard more recent results. It's quite the puzzle to find ways to remove things, as using the -search-term-I-don't-want or +term-I-do-want is increasingly less reliable, in my experience.

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Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by autoexec on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:29AM (#32935400)

Yeah, google pretty much ignores search modifiers these days and DDG (which I also use) routinely fails to understand what -term means. I still dream of the day we have a search engine that supports regular expressions.

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Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by brigandish on Friday September 23, 2022 @03:25AM (#32948976)

There was one, back before the great clearing of interesting search engines that Google brought about. I forget its name but I used it for code searches.

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