Re:Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a chann...
by dredmorbius on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:09PM
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Some of us recall that when Google+ launched it lacked any search whatsoever.
That this was the case with a company whose name is synonymous with online search was ... simply mind-boggling.
The platform eventually did get search (actually a few different implementations), which varied between mostly useless to actually reasonably functional, though I'll note that HN's Algolia-based search is vastly more useful on an ongoing basis.
G+'s content, to the extent it survives at all, is largely on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine which ... lacks search.
That this was the case with a company whose name is synonymous with online search was ... simply mind-boggling.
The platform eventually did get search (actually a few different implementations), which varied between mostly useless to actually reasonably functional, though I'll note that HN's Algolia-based search is vastly more useful on an ongoing basis.
G+'s content, to the extent it survives at all, is largely on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine which ... lacks search.