Recently I was following an interesting discussion on a German-language internet forum about YouTube search facilities which can really be lacking once in a while. The thread starter is searching for a video which is simply called 'Love' - well, just 'Love' and nothing else, and that seems to be a problem.
Google/YouTube and every mainstream search engine will not only include titles that exactly match the search term itself, but also every title that contains the search term - which is a shedload for a run-of-the-mill word like 'love' (the aforementioned thread starter gives 'Love hurts' and 'Pain in der Arsch, pocket full of cash - a grand love theme' as examples) - and there is simply no way around it. If you google around for the problem you will learn that Google's idea of 'exact match' in a title is that the search term exactly matches the title or part of the title. No filter is available that limits results to really exact title matches.
I am truly baffled how in this day and age such a glaring omission in search abilities can persist. Anyone here knows a solution?
For your own entertainment and if you happen to speak German, you can read the discussion thread that inspired this topic yourself at Winfuture-Forum.de: Youtube - Exakter Name als Filter oder so.
Google/YouTube and every mainstream search engine will not only include titles that exactly match the search term itself, but also every title that contains the search term - which is a shedload for a run-of-the-mill word like 'love' (the aforementioned thread starter gives 'Love hurts' and 'Pain in der Arsch, pocket full of cash - a grand love theme' as examples) - and there is simply no way around it. If you google around for the problem you will learn that Google's idea of 'exact match' in a title is that the search term exactly matches the title or part of the title. No filter is available that limits results to really exact title matches.
I am truly baffled how in this day and age such a glaring omission in search abilities can persist. Anyone here knows a solution?
For your own entertainment and if you happen to speak German, you can read the discussion thread that inspired this topic yourself at Winfuture-Forum.de: Youtube - Exakter Name als Filter oder so.
