Forgetful by Design? A Critical Audit of YouTube's Search API for Academic Research · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2506.11727/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTForgetful by Design? A Critical Audit of YouTube's Search API for Academic Research — mentioned by lairvhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773031urn:hackerpapers:mention:2506.11727:47773031Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:29 GMT<p>Worth noting that most of youtube videos can no longer be discovered through search. Search results can now only be sorted by &quot;Relevance&quot; and &quot;Popularity&quot; while you used to be able to sort by release date Search results are also non-exhaustive and biased towards recent videos as noted in this study https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727 Basically many videos can no longer be discovered if you don&#x27;t have a url to the video or the channel, and the algorithm doesn&#x27;t recommend it</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2506.11727/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.IR