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elrugmunchero t1_isd3v3m wrote

How do I exclude terms?

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Enschede2 t1_ise1uf4 wrote

Precede it with a minus, it might still sometimes choose to ignore you tho

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Cycode t1_isf959n wrote

youtube is 99% of the time ignoring me doing it.. usually it is acting like i would had added a + not a -... it sucks so much that it's so i consistent.

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Enschede2 t1_isfan16 wrote

I know.. they keep doing it on purpose, sometimes it's only even possible to find a video via google search by specifying youtube.com, it's extremely annoying

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Cycode t1_isfci1q wrote

the most fucked up part about this all is.. if i use newpipe (android app) to search.. it is working WAY better. so they inject some fucky shit into the desktop client and their app to make it that bad. its so annoying. also they inject videos from my subbed youtubers.. even if the videos are about something unrelated to my search. god, i hate youtubes algorithm.

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Enschede2 t1_isfeljl wrote

Yea I dont know who makes these decisions at google, but it's like they purposefully try to make things worse, I mean the youtube dislike thing, and they also recently put the google images button under the dotted menu instead of next to search, which now is apparently news, books and shopping? Idk who tf uses that but okay..

It's especially bad when you gotta find programming things or something very specific and/or obscure, if it wasn't for the google verbatim extension I'd have lost all my hair already.

Sometimes even bing is better than google, and that's not because bing has improved lol (which it hasn't)

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Cycode t1_isfg72n wrote

sometimes, it feels to me like they have a dick-size comparisation at google.. who can programm the most annoying thing to screw with customers or something like this..

like we do it on programmerhumour where people code the most annoying way to input telephone numbers into a formular as a joke.. just that they do it for real @ google.

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Whoopaow t1_isfkxvg wrote

We're not the customers, that's the corporations that advertise. It's been said a million times, but we, the viewers, are the product.

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Cycode t1_isflht6 wrote

without the viewers, there is nobody to advertise to. so its important to make sure people keep watching. if you make it always worse and worse, this has the contrary effect you normally should intent.

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Whoopaow t1_isg72k6 wrote

Yeah, true, but they're basically a monopoly. They're so firmly engrained into the culture that I doubt that's a real fear for them. Which sucks.

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Enschede2 t1_isfigpt wrote

Yea, I mean the google graveyard is evidence of that, all it takes is 1 competent competitor and I feel like google would be in shambles.
Unfortunately all the competitors kinda suck too

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JakeEllisD t1_iseu9ff wrote

Example search pls

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GravitationalEddie t1_isey6ws wrote

intitle:pancakes -buttermilk -"you wont believe" -pinterest

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RHINO_Mk_II t1_isf27t7 wrote

Can I get a plugin that adds -"reacts" to all my YT searches and content?

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TheEthyr t1_isf7z7c wrote

You don't need a plugin.

OP's website basically creates queries of the form https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=<search terms>

You can essentially do the same thing in Chrome and Firefox using a customized search.

Firefox

Go to YouTube and search for -reacts. This will generate a query like above (i.e. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=-reacts. Then create a bookmark for this link. Now, go to Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks and click on the bookmark you just created. You can also go to Manage Bookmarks and manually create a bookmark from scratch. Either way, do the following.

Go to the URL and change it to https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s-reacts.

Next, go to the Keyword field and add a shortcut. You can call it anything you want. For example you can enter yt.

To use the bookmark, just go the brower's address bar and type yt, then space and any search terms. The browser will replace the %s in the bookmark with your search terms, then go to the resulting URL.

Reference: Firefox: How to use keywords with bookmarks

Chrome

Go to Chrome's settings and click on Search Engine. Scroll to Site Search. Click on Add.

Enter any descriptive text in Search Engine (e.g. YouTube no reacts). In Shortcut, enter yt or whatever keyword you want. In URL, enter https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s-reacts.

The click Add to save it.

Use it in the same way as Firefox.

Reference: Chrome: Add, edit, or remove site search shortcuts

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venxyle t1_isfdgtn wrote

Ah yes how I found all the gta 6 leaks on day 1 Full 90 minute videos with no reactions. Absolute legend for the rest too.

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Select_Repair_2820 t1_isf3rr3 wrote

Can I get a plugin that excludes all stock photo websites when I'm searching for an image on Google?

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matlynar t1_isf6wnr wrote

I have been using Bing for images for a while now. While some results aren't as interesting as google's, it does feature way less stock images in its results and that does it for me most of the time.

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u202207191655 t1_isfa2p0 wrote

ddg.gg

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[deleted] t1_isfczvh wrote

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u202207191655 t1_isfdzut wrote

Can't you? From my view I can. But perhaps that doesn't really work.

I haven't used google since a couple years. What's the functionality that you miss since the lawsuit(s)?

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Enschede2 t1_isftc90 wrote

Also quotations don't always have to be for searchterms that consist of several words, it can also be used when youtube/google decides that it doesn't know your searchterm and assumes you made a typo, then autocorrects you without asking.
Like searching for csrs, it would probably be changed to cars or something, if you'd type "csrs" however it should indicate you don't want it to be changed, also works well on google search in conjunction with verbatim mode, for which there is also an extension to force that by default

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Enschede2 t1_iseut80 wrote

I tried that but reddit changed the minus to a dot, but it's basically the search term you wanna exclude in "", and minus in front like -"unwanted"

This used to work always, however now it increasingly does not, it does still work for say excluding subscribed channels that are unrelated to the search by saying -"subscribed" or -subscribed, or you can say -"recommended"

Maybe there is a similar trick with intitle, not sure, just like ot used to work with google search, but they keep changing things, like it used to be +"searchword" +"includesecondword", but now it is "searchword" && "includesecondword"

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