Comment on What search engines really have exact match?

Izzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• bpalmerau@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I search Google for “Music behind the scenes”. Because the first word is music(?) Google gives me four songs with some of the keywords, but not in phrase order. Then it gives me seven YouTube videos, then one website that actually contains the phrase, and in fact refers to the videos I’m looking for.

  But what it absolutely refused to give me, no matter how hard I tried, was this: youtu.be/7r01e_SZ5ic?si=GdOpoP8dBp372yjg

  I presume this is because the videos aren’t monetised? Anyway precision score 11/30, and as for recall, even if I click on ‘videos’ the five of them that have the exact phrase in the title don’t appear at all.

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  • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your problem is that “Music behind the scenes” returns hundreds of results of movie and game soundtracks. Because this is a super common phrase. It doesn’t just look at video titles, but descriptions too.

    I instantly find your video, first result, with: “music behind the scenes humour” site:YouTube.com

    Obviously if I leave "humour " out it will rather show me all the behind the scenes videos with millions of views. Instead of a random video with less than 1000.

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    • bpalmerau@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is my complaint. It ranks popular videos with the title words out of order, over videos with the words in phrase order when I’ve used quote marks as a command to only return results containing the phrase.

      I also assume that for both Google and YouTube, content they want me to see is being ranked above content I choose. I am the product, not the customer, and to me that’s not acceptable in a search engine.

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