Google now removing uploader name and upload date from video search results

[MrMobodies]

I was trying to find something by date and thought I was suffering from a form of dementia like I was imagining things that I thought were always there but wern't.

No date. With latest version of Chrome and addons switched off just incase it is one of my element rules or some partially unworked version of the page targeted the other browsers.

Lets do an image search on reviews about Google video search to see if I am indeed imagining things.
https://rankmath.com/blog/best-video-search-engines/

Nope, one image of Google video search in 2023 showing uploader and date

I noticed if I turn off Javascript:

The date reappears.

I thought: Can't believe they done this.
How lower can they go... Idiots!

I depend on that attimes to find things and compare things.

What do you think?

Oops suppose to be in General technical chat but accidentally posted in Dodgy technology and can't delete it.
Maybe the mods can move it.

[RJSV]

  I too, liked a similar feature, (for more study) of just having the elapsed time right there, and the timeline arrow thing that can be changed, to go back to start or wherever.  (I know you can tap, to go back 10 seconds, still).

Now, depending on when made, you no longer get the full screen, it's a portion of top, and with most of screen has the post info etc. text and advertisements occupy that text at first.
When you click, it only takes away the ad text, NOT any SKIP anymore.

[Whales]

Might not be the answer you're after, but I think still useful to mention:

https://searx.perennialte.ch/search?q=test&categories=videos

You're supposed to self-host it, but I just chose a local instance off this list instead: https://searx.space/

So far it's been better than DuckDuckGo so it's winning in my books.  Results nice, latency excellent, UI not a PITA.

[RJSV]

Plus you have to endure the first AD, or three.
   That means if you are searching for something, and need to just since at the first few seconds, to check if that's the one you needed, you, obviously, will need to endure a couple minutes per video, before you can check if it's the one you wanted.

Sneaky too, (maybe), as it seems to be gradual, and older videos posted often have some features still.  They all have big changes though, compared to 3 years ago.

[RJSV]

Oh, yeah:  I remembered the other pet peeve, on the Google functional things:

   The freeze video / play video started incorporating an "Xtra" function, very unwanted, and alarming, that if such loss of functional practicality could (suddenly) happen, then started a sense of 'motion',  meaning that Google could and would just introduce anything they wished.
   It's a loss of control, (although I didn't own those video system resources, and wasn't PAYING any subscription stuff.)

   Well, the next thing was that the resumption of PLAY, after a pause freeze, would put in an additional function;  a 1 or 2 second rewind or backup in the play position.

   Sounds innocent, but that then meant I could no longer analyze time and motion, for some entertaining things, like a really good gymnast.
I sometimes would put on a music video, trying to decide some awesum guitar riff, for example.
   Two taps on the smartphone screen, (Android) and the video would progress approx 750 milliseconds, and then stop again.
You could imagine, with start-stop ability, you can observe a simulated 'slow motion' of the gymnast, or of a guitar solo, and examine things in freeze or stop mode.
  But then, with the product change (YouTube) the start-stop thing became rewind-play and that total disrupts any attempt to, simply view the action as similar to automobile crash test analysis.
   (I'm actually quite willing to fork over a subscription, in exchange for the many awesum features offered by Google and YouTube.)

   So, now I'm realizing this beef, is actually a complaint about YouTube, but ownership is same, corporate wise.
   In the big picture, having that feature, of accurate stop-starts, with numerical elapsed time right on screen, is quite a good feature, for motion study curiosity.
How fast did my cat rotate, when somebody tossed her over to the couch cushion ?  That kind of brief exploration, in my living room.

   Full disclosure, I already had other issues with Google, but not really searching for any loose threads to pull.  They are good enough at looking bad, by themselves.

[MrMobodies]

Might not be the answer you're after, but I think still useful to mention:

https://searx.perennialte.ch/search?q=test&categories=videos

You're supposed to self-host it, but I just chose a local instance off this list instead: https://searx.space/

So far it's been better than DuckDuckGo so it's winning in my books.  Results nice, latency excellent, UI not a PITA.

Now wonder why I found it slow but one thing I like about it like Duckduckgo is the style and the setting to turn off the autocomplete suggestions (the drop down box with suggestions that change as I type in the search box where I'd have to use adblock to hide them) and no spammy fixed header to get in the way, follow and harass down the page.

Another thing that I REALLY like and now missing from Google is this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241219211453/https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/test

Not using Google cache on what is left of it but Archive pages from archive.org
Now that is excellent idea.

Maybe DuckDuckGo should follow suit.

[Helio_Centra]

I only use Google as a fallback for about 6 years now. I was using DuckDuckGo till it was leaked they were selling user data even though they claimed to be anonymous. Since I've been using Brave Search.

[RJSV]

   I suppose you could always email ME, your search terms (legal !), and I could email or text back to you the results...
   I've been declared super-totally safe and confidential, by several pets.

   Only problem is the unsecure email...you can't use Gmail,  although I've noticed that Gmail gets used a lot inside of government offices contacts with public.
   But, at least I don't sell data,  promise.

[Analog Kid]

I only use Google as a fallback for about 6 years now. I was using DuckDuckGo till it was leaked they were selling user data even though they claimed to be anonymous. Since I've been using Brave Search.

I used to be a Duck Duck Go devotee. I really liked their commitment to privacy which seemed to be genuine. (Haven't heard anything about them selling data; I'll have to look into that.)

I stopped using them when it became apparent that their search results just weren't very good compared to Google. And it turned out that they didn't even implement their own search engine: they were using someone else's (don't know exactly who). In particular, their search didn't obey quoted text the way Google does, at least sometimes. So i stopped using them.

Since then even Google's results quality has declined, so I'm always on the lookout for a better alternative, if in fact any exist.

It's a goddamn jungle out there ...