Every time I google a solution for a simple problem (like where to find a feature of a software in its menus or how to calculate something) I always have to navigate past the dozen youtube links to find the article or manual that tells me the solution in 10 lines of text.
If your tutorial could be a webpage then you shouldn’t do it.
Edit: to all the people that suggest to make a specific query in the search, that’s just a partial solution because there are times I don’t know the entity of the solution and youtube could be a good place to look for.
Just put “-youtube” in your search…
You can even create a filter in uBlock Origin to remove domains from search results. I did it for Pinterest, as it always clogged my search results.
Doesn’t help when you’re question has a one word answer, but there are a dozen 20 minute videos on YouTube to answer your question.
Yes it does. “-Youtube” excludes all youtube videos from being displayed in the search results.
I think they’re saying there could be 30 second video with the answer, but most of them aren’t
I don’t want a 9 minute video for a ten second solution. Give me a 1 minute video or a paragraph with a picture, thanks.
Blame the YouTube ad model for this atrocity. They incentivize this crap.
When I’m playing a new video game and I google “how to jump” or something simple, I have to sift through entire articles and 10 minutes tutorials, just so I can find a page that will say “press the R3 BUTTON”. it’s super frustrating, not everything needs a video tutorial
You can find that information in every game in the menus.
But that why we have search engines, so we can find the information quickly instead of having to manually sift through the menus
But that’s why we have menus, so we can find the information quickly instead of having to manually sift through search results.
In this simplified case, yes. But sometimes you might need to find an answer to a less trivial question and the described problem still would there. There’s a lot of seo-optimized, but useless content. It’s frustrating.
When you seek out the services tailored to the ignorant masses, you receive the results intended for the ignorant masses. The days of Google being the best resource have been gone since the 2016 US election at least.
If you have a simple tutorial to share, step 1 is to buy a domain and hosting. Step 2 is to learn how to create a website and step 3 is learning SEO so your tutorial can be found.
I can make a video on it if you’d like
I think the issue is more that many people make bad tutorials. They spend way too much time giving irrelevant information when we’re only interested in the specific steps for the thing we need. Searching for recipes falls under this category, too.
I don’t care what your friend’s aunt said about the one time you made this recipe. I just want the ingredients, temperature, and cooking time. Your life story surrounding this pancake recipe can fuck right off.
But YouTube pays them to have longer videos so it gets padded out with bullshut
Or it’s a kid that made the video. They can actually be better sometimes for brevity because some kids will get right to the point, but some kids have the most annoying voices, especially males right around early puberty. I feel bad because I think it’s a good thing that they are trying and I don’t want to discourage them, but maybe the minimum age to post videos on the internet should be after the adult voice has developed.
I think a lot of it has to do with monetization - YouTube pays much better than text. (also has less embarrassing ads than all the gut doctor / weight loss / toenail fungus / 15 Celebrity Wardrobe Fails crap that text sites seem to all be using these days)
Toenail fungus? You know those ads are targeted? I guess we all learnt something about old “gross toes Ertebolle” today.
Mines shingles in your area
It’s Googles fault for pushing videos first
Ah, yes, another unpopular opinion. Look at all the commenters explaining why they’d rather watch 1 hour of fluff than read 5 minutes of instructions and completely disagreeing with OP.
“Unpopular” doesn’t only mean that the internet is supposed to split in half and cause a civil war once you say it, it only means “It is not common among most of the people”.
Which is true since there’s a shitload of people uploading a shitload of shitty tutorials every shitty day.That doesn’t make the opinion unpopular. There are a lot more people who hate this shit than there are people making the videos. The vast majority of people, I’d say, which makes this an extremely popular opinion.
God I have this with so many things. It starts off with some advertised please like and subscribe garbage and you need to fast forward through the video to actually find the relevant 5 seconds answer in a 10 minute video.
Even for fucking video games there’s more videos than just a simple screenshot of a map that shows you what hill to run to and where to go from there.
After which their algorithm keeps suggesting more of these idiotic clips because you watched one.
I feel this for very basic things, but then I’ve had to screen record how to click “sign in” for a user so they would understand
Uhg. My boss wants us to make short videos for everything. About 90% of them could be 2 pictures and 3 sentences. He says no one reads, I say no one watches the videos. We are both right. Everyone wants someone there to hold their hand. It’s annoying.
Sorry but that sounds like you can’t craft a decent search query.
Try excluding youtube from the results.
or just, you know, scroll past it
google often groups youtube results at the top and then shows other websites below it, so I don’t see the issue
I also find this annoying but that’s because I more easily grasp written instructions than I do a video tutorial. It’s the way my brain is wired. Just give me the bloody instructions. Others need the video. I hate them. But since the internet is like, a resource for everyone, not just me, I try not to take it so personally.
I agree, there are different learning styles.
You’re telling me you don’t miss watching someone type slowly into Notepad while Dreamscape by 009 Sound System plays in the background?
Edit out the typos? Nooooo
Edit out the part where they did it wrong for 5 minutes and start again? Nooooo
Just put -youtube at the end of your search term
No, people should stop making complicated video tutorials for simple problems.
