YouTube is the worst for this.
You barely get results related to your search terms at all before it shows you blocks of completely interrelated “shorts” and then just a feed of your subscriptions and recommended content.
Yup. It’s the worst change they’ve ever made to YouTube search.
And I don’t even know why, 9 times out of ten it shows me videos that I’ve already watched! I’m not gonna watch them again YouTube!
I really want a search that works like this.
- There are at least three Boolean operators:
and,not,or. They’re well documented, users can easily see how to use them, and they apply to groups of search terms or individual search terms as the user wants. - Lack of a Boolean operator should be interpreted as “and”.
- Case is simply not taken into account.
- Extremely limited approximate string matching, that can be turned off for individual terms or for the whole. And if you turn it off, the search engine should respect it.
- No semantic bullshit, stop assuming what the user “means” dammit. At most if the scope of the search is extremely limited, have a list of synonyms, but let the user turn it off.
- No profiling/personalisation. At most let the user filter results by language. (inb4: don’t assume user language, ask them.)
Make it predictable. Make it procedural. Make it so users can actually find what they requested, instead of your assumptions / bullshit over what they want.
- There are at least three Boolean operators:
Listen, brown, light green, red, and pink paid for advertising and that matters much more than your search query
Maybe I’m bad at colors
Destroy the advertising industry. Burn it alllll down
my favorite thought exercise about advertising:
“without it, we would have to pay out of pocket for ad supported services!”
ok but when a company pays for advertising, where are they getting that money from? an added cost on the products we’re buying! so we’re paying for product A, we’re paying extra for product A to pay for product B with advertising spending AND we’re funding product A’s marketing department to make the ads on top of that
remove the advertising and we would pay less for product A, we could then afford to pay for B directly AND we would all pay less overall because we take ad department employees and costs out of the equation. we’re literally all paying more for everything overall by having some things “free with ads” than if we just paid for everything in the first place with no ads
Advertising isn’t an inherently bad thing; it’s just gotten way out of control.
I’m more with the opposite view: Advertising, which is manipulating people into buying your product, IS inherently a bad thing. Although some cases may be legitimate.
How do you expect people to find out about new businesses? Especially ones without a brick and mortar storefront.
They put a sign on the building that says “Now Open”, put the building on the maps, and invite local food critics in for a review.
Read my second sentence
A restaurant without a storefront is just a ghost kitchen.
