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This needs to be called out. The YouTube Search Engine is not what it used to be, and they silently changed it to display only the most relevant search results, followed by a massive column of "recommended videos for you" styles of categories that are not related to your search. You cannot deep search YouTube anymore, not using its built-in search engine at least. This change limits the scope of the things you can find on YouTube to what the "algorithm" wants to show you. I think the ability to find what you need to find on the Internet is the whole point of the Internet, and restricting that is restricting my right to access to information.
A lot of what I mean is in this reddit thread.
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your back I agree YT search is messed up
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thanks for the info @Energycore, this is just sad, we really need a new youtube.
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I've observed similar things, but just put that on "Youtube bein Youtube" ... for me, the recommendations have been broken for years now, recommending me stuff that's barely related, or even completely unrelated to my viewing habits, and will often recommend me videos I've already watched (sometimes the next day), and even if I go through the "I'm not interested > Tell us why > I've watched it already", some of those will be recommended again and again. Similar thing with YT shorts, I watch shorts from time to time, and holy shit is it randomly throwing stuff at you, I get you're supposed to get a more randomized sample, but damn.
That's just user facing UI though, I think creators have it worse than that, with copyrights abuses, uneven applications of community strikes, arbitrary demonetizations, etc...