US EditionTired of AI Slop? YouTube Gets New Filters to Hide Shorts From Search Results
YouTube updates search by adding a Shorts filter and renaming options to prioritize popularity, factoring in watch time to address user complaints and reduce low-quality clips.
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If you don't support Shorts videos on YouTube, you can finally delete them from your searches.They keep infecting your subscription updates, but it's a start.The Chinese social network TikTok introduced years ago that brainbreaker called Shorts, vertical short videos of a few seconds with infinite scroll.It was an immediate success, because it is designed to be addictive, to the point of threatening the hegemony of YouTube and its long horizonta…
YouTube's new search filters make clearer distinctions between long-form videos and Shorts
Though YouTube encourages creators and viewers to embrace all of the formats it offers, its latest update acknowledges that some people may have preferences for certain types of videos. The Google-owned hub has debuted new search filters that make it easier to single out long-form videos or Shorts. On a help forum page, YouTube announced that it intends to “improve content discovery” through a new set of filtering options. “Our goal is to equip …
YouTube’s new search tools remind us why we opened YouTube in the first place
YouTube is enabling users to exclude YouTube Shorts from search results, which is great news for those looking to delve deeper into topics, or enjoy longer-form video content. Users can head to the advanced search tools in order to drop Shorts – the three minutes or fewer vertical clips designed to rival the social media apps – from the results. That’ll lead to a more traditional yield of search results from YouTube creators. It could also mean …
YouTube just added the one filter users have been begging for, and it's going to change how you search
YouTube is rolling out updates to its search filters, giving users more control over the types of videos that appear in search results. The headline change is a new option that allows viewers to completely filter out Shorts, the platform’s short-form videos, from their search results. This long-requested feature addresses a common frustration among users. Many have complained that YouTube’s search results often mix short and long videos together…
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