YouTube is now practically unsearchable

In the recent years YouTube's search quality get worse in the following steps:

First they started to ignore keywords, but you could use quotes to force the results to have them to be included.
Then they started to ignore "-keyword" to filter things you don't want.
Then quoted words stopped working anymore, but you could still sort the results by update date to force results that contain the word you are searching for.
Then they removed the ability to sort the results by date. But the sp= trick still worked.
Now the sp= trick is not working either.

Sure I can search every week and limit the videos to this week. But even then the results are filled with crap that have absolutely nothing to do with the words I'm searching for.

Basically if the topic you are searching for not something people make million of videos about. YouTube gives you a bunch of random crap instead, that doesn't have absolutely nothing to do what you are searching for.

What's worse even if the topic you are searching for even a little bit out of norm, YouTube will think you are an extreme creep who want to watch gruesome/disgusting stuff. Somehow those things always end up in the search results no matter what I do.

Today I deleted all my bookmarked searches. It's over. It was a nice 20 years while it lasted. I hope one day a random billionaire will see the market gap and make something that can actually be searchable. It's the end of an era. Nothing last forever.

YouTube is now practically unsearchable

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