• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Inexplicably, despite having the same parent company, a google (or any engine really) search is going to have far better results for finding videos on youtube. I swear they stopped improving the internal search capability back in 2010, when they could have just punted to google.com ages ago.

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      Have you seen google photos ? The search function there is shockingly bad. Even when I know a photo exists of xyz, searching for xyz or words related to xyz finds either nothing at all, or unrelated images.

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        23 hours ago

        Perhaps that’s a blessing in disguise. They know way too much about me already. I was also glad, in retrospect, that they started limiting photo storage as I no longer upload any photos to them. The Android app is big mad about that and periodically tries to trick me into re-enabling uploads.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        21 hours ago

        That’s because google doesn’t show you internet search results any more. It takes your parameters and serves you the closest match it can find within its advertising network