Youtube Search May Be Completely Broken Now! Check This Out.....

TheLightSkinSmurf said:
You mind sharing your other channel?
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Sorry, it's a channel that I don't want promoted on here at all :)

But I can give you some advice :) Upload your new videos as unlisted with a decent SEO filename. Then take the time to write your title, description and tags. Your descriptions aren't bad, but could be a bit longer maybe? Try and get everything how you want it first time. When and only when everything is optimized should you make it public.

The search doesn't react quickly to changes which is why it's important to get it right first time while unlisted.

Good luck!
 
CrownAcademyEnglish said:
Sorry, it's a channel that I don't want promoted on here at all :)

But I can give you some advice :) Upload your new videos as unlisted with a decent SEO filename. Then take the time to write your title, description and tags. Your descriptions aren't bad, but could be a bit longer maybe? Try and get everything how you want it first time. When and only when everything is optimized should you make it public.

The search doesn't react quickly to changes which is why it's important to get it right first time while unlisted.

Good luck!
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Appreciate the advice but I already do everything you said for the most part. This isn't just a ME problem its happening to everyone. I've been paying very very VERY close attention to this over the last week or two. So much so that I know for a FACT something isn't right. I'm still waiting for just one person that has uploaded a video in the last 10 hours or so to show up in search. I have yet to see even ONE video do that yet. This isn't some huge coincidence, its a problem.
 
No problem. I agree something has changed, but it seems to be affecting people in different ways.

TheLightSkinSmurf said:
I'm still waiting for just one person that has uploaded a video in the last 10 hours or so to show up in search. I have yet to see even ONE video do that yet. This isn't some huge coincidence, its a problem.
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The easiest way is to do a search and then filter by upload time. the ones at the top are the recent uploads.

Example for the search term "minecraft survival island"

http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...rvival+island&search_sort=video_date_uploaded
 
CrownAcademyEnglish said:
No problem. I agree something has changed, but it seems to be affecting people in different ways.



The easiest way is to do a search and then filter by upload time. the ones at the top are the recent uploads.

Example for the search term "minecraft survival island"
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I'm glad you showed me this even tho I already knew about it I completely forgot lol. You just made it even easier for me to prove something is up. Look up any term you want, doesn't matter. Lets do cod ghosts as a really good example. Its safe to say that we know for a fact that somebody has uploaded a cod ghost video within the last few hours. However when you look it up the last video shown is 22 hours ago. *Tried to post link but YTTalk didn't let me*

Do that for anything else you want. Lets try a search for battlefield 4 shall we. *Again tried to post link but didn't let me* Oh look, last video uploaded about 22 hours ago. See a trend happening here?

There are no videos being shown within the last 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 hours. Idk exactly when the search stopped working but you can kinda figure it out when you look at the last videos uploaded for whatever term you're searching. I'm gonna see if I can find a video uploaded within the last few hours or so.
 
TheLightSkinSmurf said:
I'm glad you showed me this even tho I already knew about it I completely forgot lol. You just made it even easier for me to prove something is up. Look up any term you want, doesn't matter. Lets do cod ghosts as a really good example. Its safe to say that we know for a fact that somebody has uploaded a cod ghost video within the last few hours. However when you look it up the last video shown is 22 hours ago. *Tried to post link but YTTalk didn't let me*

Do that for anything else you want. Lets try a search for battlefield 4 shall we. *Again tried to post link but didn't let me* Oh look, last video uploaded about 22 hours ago. See a trend happening here?

There are no videos being shown within the last 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 hours. Idk exactly when the search stopped working but you can kinda figure it out when you look at the last videos uploaded for whatever term you're searching. I'm gonna see if I can find a video uploaded within the last few hours or so.
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Weird. It seems that we're not seeing the same results. I know that search results are different depending on what location you're in.

Can you post a screenshot of your "Battlefield 4" search? (filtered by date)

I'm seeing plenty of results:

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Don't forget that Wednesday is YT's weekly update. The day on which they put a lot of things on standby for 24 hours[DOUBLEPOST=1383769921,1383769525][/DOUBLEPOST]Here are my results for "cod ghosts" - agin I'm seeing loads of results:

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CrownAcademyEnglish said:
Weird. It seems that we're not seeing the same results. I know that search results are different depending on what location you're in.

Can you post a screenshot of your "Battlefield 4" search? (filtered by date)

I'm seeing plenty of results:

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Don't forget that Wednesday is YT's weekly update. The day on which they put a lot of things on standby for 24 hours[DOUBLEPOST=1383769921,1383769525][/DOUBLEPOST]Here are my results for "cod ghosts" - agin I'm seeing loads of results:

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That is weird, when I adjust my filter to "upload date" these are the first few videos that show.
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And if I adjust it to videos that were uploaded within the last hour nothing shows at all. What country are you in? Maybe that's why idk.
 
Pervert Pete said:
Am I sure? I changed browsers without logging in and typed in the SEARCH BAR so yea, Im sure. Looks like the problem is on your end, certain peoples end or certain something that only youtube knows about.
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I asked other youtubers so its definitely not just my end. However I have no idea what the damn problem is. I just hope youtube fixes it.[DOUBLEPOST=1383780605,1383780464][/DOUBLEPOST]Do me a favor someone, look up my last video in youtube search and tell me if you see it.
 
I have experienced this, but its isnt ALL the time. Sometimes I will post a livestream, to start in 5 hours, and within 5 minutes Im on page one, for an event that hasnt started. Other times, a stream wont show up for days after its over. I can't figure it out.

EDIT: just checked todays, I announced the stream 2 hours ago. it still doesnt show up when I type the exact title into search.
All that comes up is my channel name, which states that I was last active 2 days ago... when my last upload was less than 24 hours ago. Maybe its just taking a long time to update? I have been getting lots of server errors and stuff today and yesterday as well
 
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Update: I went to my inbox and saw some notification from youtube telling me "Most comment notifications will now be delivered by Google+ and not to your inbox" *Another stupid change, like really youtube?* so then I searched my video again and it came up.

Then I refreshed the page and it was gone. Refreshed the page a few more times still gone. Refreshed the page again and there it was. Long story short, I think its back to at least sorta kinda working.........still need to study it more to make sure.
 
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