According to data provided by Oberlo, in 2019, the popular YouTube video platform had a not inconsiderable figure of 2 billion users worldwide , who log into the page every month to watch videos. Every day, users watch 1 billion hours of video , generating billions of views. While, daily, around 720,000 hours of video are uploaded, which would be equivalent to approximately 30,000 hours of video uploaded every hour.
At this point, it is normal that we ask ourselves a question: in what way is it possible to find that video that we saw once but whose title we already remember? It is true that searching through all that flood of videos can be enormously difficult and complicated than searching the entire web. Luckily, there are some simple tips that can be very helpful.
Learning to use the filtering options of the YouTube search engine
The Filter option that you will find in the YouTube search engine offers different options to try to refine the search process as much as possible, and help us find the video more easily.
However, there are so many possibilities that it is possible to get lost among the filters that appear on the results page. Upload date, type, duration or characteristics are some of the main options that we can use. Although it is true that some specific ones, such as the length of the video or its quality, are particularly useful when, for example, we want to find the latest clips.
Although it is true that everything will depend on the type of content we are looking for . For example, if it is the advancement of a recent movie or trailer that has just been released recently, or we want to access the summary of the news that occurred today, we can configure the filters of Last minute, Today or This Week ( within Upload Date).
Under the Features column there are a series of extremely useful filters that we can use to find particular content, such as 4K or HD quality videos. While the Duration filter will also be useful depending on the time we have to watch the clips.
Using search commands
In the same way that we can do in the Google search engine, it is possible to add a series of search commands to the queries that we carry out within YouTube, although in reality it is not something very well known among most users.
When conducting a search, YouTube’s internal system compares the keywords entered in the search engine with the title, description and tags of a certain video, but if we enter the command “intitle:” in front of them, the results they will only show matches specifically related to the video title.
It is also possible to put different keywords of the video that we want to find in quotes. In this way, they will match the exact phrases included by the user who has uploaded it to the platform.
But, in addition, there are some simple tricks that can be quite helpful:
- Add a plus symbol (+) in front of the keywords that we want to match 100%.
- Add a minus symbol (-) next to the keywords that we want to exclude completely.
This last option, for example, is tremendously suitable when, when conducting a first search, we obtain many irrelevant or inappropriate results.
Advantages when using playlists
If you want to avoid junk videos, sometimes the best route to find a video that may interest us is through a playlist , or even a certain channel , instead of carrying out a more general search, on all when that video is mislabeled or described.
Using the Filter function as well, we can find playlists and channels, but it takes some patience and also a lot of creative thinking. Our recommendation? Once you find a channel that you like, you can subscribe to it to access its contents more quickly.
