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Re:Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a chann... by harshreality on Saturday May 20, 2023 @08:43PM (#36016945)
What I'd expect is that

"having a distribution that's both radially symmetric" site:youtube.com

would return 3b1b's "Why π is in the normal distribution" video, which has that in subtitles at 22:28.

Even without the site: term, all I get is an allreadable.com page that's scraped the subtitles for that video. Allreadable appears at first glance to be a site owned by someone in China and hosted on liquidweb.

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Re:Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a chann... by crazygringo on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:53PM (#36017612)
I just checked and it returns that video as the first result if you put your phrase into the YouTube search box in quotes, so that's good news.

I wonder why YouTube indexes the transcripts for YouTube search, but Google chooses not to include them in its index for Google search? Seems like an intentional decision since it's the same company after all.

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