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martin- • yesterday at 6:30 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

I just tried googling "fentanyl fold" and switching to the video tab, and zero of the first ten results were AI. They were also mostly not from YouTube. I also tried the same search on YouTube, and no AI there either among the first ten results (I didn't bother with the Shorts). I don't know why we get so different results.


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autoexec • yesterday at 7:58 PM

> I don't know why we get so different results.

That's how everyone experiences everything at google, youtube. and many other websites. Your experience can be drastically different from the next persons for reasons that are never explained to you and can be entirely out of your control.

Joeri • yesterday at 8:05 PM

If you’re logged in you get wildly different results from someone else’s. I have turned off history on my google account to make it give me a “neutral” search result, but it still seems to take a lot of info like my location, language and device type into account.

someonebaggy • yesterday at 7:50 AM

Are you in Europe? Google was sued to stop prioritising YouTube in video results.

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