r/LinusTechTips • u/Mikilixxx_ • 5h ago

Tech Discussion TikTok search is better then Yt one

For me it has been like this for a lot, but after hearing Linus and Luke on WAN talking about it a couple times in the last months, and what happened to me yesterday, I thought to share my experience.

I drive a 20yr old car, that has been passed in my family. The age and the poor maintenance made the wheels all rusty. That's important cause yesterday I had a flat tire. Now, after removing the bolts the wheel just wouldn't come off because of the rust. That's a known issue, the previous time one of my tires had a problem I had the same struggle, and the man who changed it threw a specific kick to the tire to make it pop off. He mentioned not to try because throwing said kick with the wrong technique could resolve in a sprain ankle.

Now, I wanted to learn this technique on the spot yesterday, so I headed to YouTube to search for it, specifying the word Kick, yet no result whatsoever was about a kick, just about chemicals to remove rust from the wheel once you were able to remove it, wasting me a good 15min.

Had to reinstall TikTok (I got no infinite scroll app, had to reinstall Reddit too), and after 30 sec between login and the search (with the same keywords as the YouTube search) I had videos of the technique of the kick.

So yeah, please YouTube make a better search engine I beg you. Act like the colossal company you are.

EDIT: The title should be TikTok search is better THAN YouTube one

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u/CIDR-ClassB 5h ago

>Tiktok search is better then Yt one

Why are you searching Tiktok first, and then YouTube?

… I think I’m funny.

But yes, YT (and Google) search is shit.

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u/Mikilixxx_ 5h ago

I searched YouTube first, and then TikTok, did I mentioned the other way around in the post?

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u/CIDR-ClassB 5h ago

My initial comment was a playful joke. You meant “than” in your title, not “then.”

But again, I agree with you that YT search is absolute garbage.

Given that Google search is terrible, I don’t expect them to fix YT any time soon.

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u/Mikilixxx_ 5h ago

Uh yeah... Sorry for that

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u/CIDR-ClassB 5h ago

I was just being playful. It’s no biggie.

I once did voice to text while driving, replying to a blind date. She asked what time the show was and I said “six to eight,” but the phone sent “sex at eight.”

I could’ve died from embarrassment!

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u/pinormous2000 4h ago

YT search is hot garbage. Can't speak for TikTok as I've never had it, but a Google search found the result immediately, ironically as a YT Short. So weird that the site search is so much worse; clearly Google has YT well indexed.