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tredre3today at 3:35 AM1 replyview on HN

Your idea doesn't explain why:

- YouTube search often doesn't return the correct video when we search an exact title

- YouTube search shows entirely unrelated videos after the first 4-5 results


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tartorantoday at 4:17 AM

-YouTube search returns popular completely unrelated content (mostly brainrot) which is clearly feeding to users to watch in case they forgot they were searching for something else

-YouTube search returns unrelated videos that were partially watched

Clearly the youtube search is broken on purpose. It's hard to forget how google search went from good to barely usable and it's hard not to notice how they're applying the same strategy