The new Google-fied YouTube sucks

In the old YouTube, you could have your video search results ordered by upload date, handy if you want to check out the latest uploaded video on a subject, and browse through them in chronological order

Google, in all of their infinite wisdom, have ditched that very useful option and replaced it with "Today," "this week," "this month" and "this year." And it doesn't sort those results into chronological order, you get them by relevance or something. Which I'm sure is helpful in some circumstances. But if you need to see the uploaded videos in order of upload, you're now screwed. 

Boy am I sick of software developers and their pathological obsession with removing useful features that you'd come to rely on. Guess they know better than us though, eh? 

They annoy me to be honest. All of their stuff seems to be in a constant beta-state. Always full of bugs and never quite finished. They really want to be taken seriously in the business world (Google Apps etc) but their stuff is a complete nightmare. They are always changing features on a whim. I'm a paying Google Apps for Business customer and they are forever sending me emails saying that they're rolling out feature-X and rolling in feature-Y. Meanwhile, you've spend money on a script that makes use of feature-X. I've heard of IT departments almost having nervous breakdowns trying to switch to Google Apps, and facing ridiculously inadequate help documents as well as virtually no customer support to speak of. 

As a software ecosystem, they suck. They sit in ivory towers and make whimsical changes to their products without thinking about how people use them in the real world. It almost seems like more of an academic exercise than a business. 

I use pictures a lot for both business and photoshop fun but this comment applies to far more than just that...  Everytime I get Google image search results, there's one button at the bottom that you can click for more results, but after that you're done.  If you are looking for a fairly generic image (say a "pony"), you only get about 17 pages of results which is not really as much as it sounds.  There should be an option to get more 'cause you KNOW there's a lot more (you can confirm this by changing the size you're looking for - 17 pages of all sizes, yet you still get 17 pages if you only want large size results).

I don't like that.  If I'm researching something, I'd like to be able to go beyond the basic set amount.

Kinda like the folks who say...."We're from the government and we're here to help you" they think they know better ......so you get what they give you and if something happens to be working well....... just wait, they'll fix it soon enough so it isn't. 

Perhaps it's me then. Not working with Chrome or Firefox 16 here.

jamesg1213


Perhaps it's me then. Not working with Chrome or Firefox 16 here.

Did you turn off javascript and forget about it? 

Hmmm. Maybe they're experimenting with a new layout and have only rolled it out for a few users. They're like that. 

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