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Adding on to this, the search is horrible. Lots of things related to news and comedy will just get you endless CNN videos or late night talk shows, regardless of whether they are relevant. The worst I've encountered so far happened when I wanted to post that old Harry Partridge cartoon "Stephen the Lesbian" on another site. The first result is for a reupload of the original video with less than a thousandth of the views of the original. Then a couple of playlists with the original video on them, then fandubs into other languages, then a mix of videos about lesbians, people named Stephen and other Harry Partridge videos. But as far as I can tell the original video never appears in the search results. Even adding "Harry Partridge" to the search doesn't really help anything. At first I thought the video got taken down for being offensive or something, but it's still there if you go directly to his channel. Maybe it was shadowbanned, maybe the search algorithm is just shit, I don't know. It's worth noting that video.google.com generally has better results for youtube videos than the search on youtube itself, including in this example (where the video comes up as the #1 result). EDIT: Looking at the comments of the original video apparently it showed up on a ton of people's recommendations a few weeks ago. So apparently youtube will recommend it to everyone, but not reveal it if you search for it. Which just makes everything make even less sense. EDIT 2: Okay, so while both "stephen the lesbian" and "stephen the lesbian harry partridge" give you results where the video doesn't appear at all, "all hail stephen king of the lesbians" does get you the original video as the top result (with the next results mainly being about Stephen King with a few Harry Partridge videos mixed in, then tons of playlists which have nothing to do with either topic). What the hell is this search even doing.

Impressive.