On two occasions in the past two months, I had search for a video of Kanye’s infamous diss of Taylor Swift. Naturally, I went to YouTube to do the search, and that ended up being completely useless.

I find that there is a huge amount of garbage on YouTube nowadays. If I want to look for a video of a popular event, it becomes almost impossible to find. Instead, I find countless videos where it is one guy video blogging their opinion on the event, or a teaser video asking me to ‘click this link’ to see the actual video (of course the real video is nowhere on the site). It seems like every highly ranked result is just a front for advertising or traffic. Another case in point: try finding Crosby’s golden goal.

This reminds me of a time on the old frontier days of the Web, you know when Google hadn’t gained supremacy, or you had to do research on arbitrary sites because Wikipedia wasn’t around yet or when blogging was recognized as journalism. Enough with the ‘and Imma let you finish with your day but you have to hear this celeb news’ videos already. I just want some way to find real videos. Someone figure this problem out…

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: complaining, google, webgeek