This has gotten on my nerves a ton as of recent. Trying to search your watch history on YouTube is absolutely fucking infuriating. You can type in like 90% of a video title verbatim, and YouTube will have no idea what you want, but show the same video when you type some random word from the title? I mean fucking seriously? I was looking for a specific video about the history of smash bros, and I shit you not, searching “super smash bros” turned up more than twice the amount of results as searching just “smash”? I mean fucking what? Surely every video that matches the first search would, by definition, also meet the second in any sane universe, no? It’s even worse when you realize that YouTube already has a search capable of looking through the much larger dataset of all the videos when you just search on the site, and Google has an actual fucking search engine, but searching in your watch history is like trying to get directions from a drunken amnesiac? And to top it all off, I can’t even find the video I want because YouTube ruined the actual fucking search by polluting it with literally and intentionally irrelevant garbage after like 4 results
With the amount of “recommendation” they are shoving into our face I wouldn’t be surprised they intentionally neglected the history search function because they want you to watch new stuff, preferably the garbage they are pushing to you.
Their intention can’t get more obvious that that, isn’t it?