Ask HN: Are there any alternate indexes / search engines for YouTube?

4 points by eyeball 3 years ago | 4 comments

I miss the days when you could watch a youtube video and get suggestions related to that particular video. It led to discovering new things. Now they just show me more of the stuff I've already seen, or things they want to promote.

pizza 3 years ago |

Ironically, Google’s federated tracking system (FLoC/Topics api), if probe-able, could probably be used to get you some competing suggestions for YouTube videos

jolmg 3 years ago |

There's the video results in the various search engines, like DDG, Bing, and Yahoo.

qualudeheart 3 years ago |

Goog won`t allow it.

jolmg 3 years ago | |

Actually, from the terms of service:

> The following restrictions apply to your use of the Service. You are not allowed to: [...] 3. access the Service using any automated means (such as robots, botnets or scrapers) except (a) in the case of public search engines, in accordance with YouTube’s robots.txt file;