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Full disclousure: I work for Google, but nowhere near YT/YT music. Opinions are my own and I am actually a customer as I pay for YT premium with a family plan for me, my wife, and our son.

While I agree YT without Ads is great, you also get YT music which is really good and for us it replaced Spotify completely.

Personally, though, I don't have a problem with search (maybe because I set a lot of channels as "do not recommend/show"). Shorts, however, they are really annoying.



> Personally, though, I don't have a problem with search (maybe because I set a lot of channels as "do not recommend/show").

Previously search was just search. It wasn't great, but it wasn't too bad.

Now it shows 5-7 results from actual search (often really bad results).

The next section is "People also watch" which quite often has very passing relevance to what you look for.

Then there are shorts.

Then there's "explore more" which may or may not be relevant to your search, and it has "+N more" underneath.

And then there's the rest of the search which, again, may or may not be relevant to your search at all.

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I think it was slightly fixed recently, so the results are a bit more relevant, but it still is just ... weird




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