Dude, if you seek brevity, the preferred mode of consumption is often found at wikipedia.org.
YouTube videos are a format produced with entertainment value in mind, for those with 5 to 10 minutes to burn.
Videos below the two minute mark are barely worth YouTube’s JS payload, nevermind the video buffer.
If you want 30 second videos, you need to go cruise for WEBM files on your favorite image board, and expect to find a cache of interesting GIF images along the way, but try to contain your frustration at the lack of audio.
(btw: Above 20 minutes, and honestly, I still find optical discs preferrable to streaming services for a number of practical reasons, but most importantly: physical transmission of a tangible object for any large corpus data will always beat electromagnetic broadcast over a shared medium. #mytwocents)
Absolutely, Wikipedia is my go-to for general information. Wikipedia doesn't answer questions like "how do I disable web searching in Windows 10 search," though. It used to be that googling simple technical questions would return a concise blog/forum post, but it's increasingly likely that all the top results will be videos.
If you are seeing video links in Google it may be because you have favored those results in the past and big-G is showing you more of those because it thinks that you prefer them.
That was a random example of a technical question, since it seemed like people didn't understand what kind of info I was searching for. I don't recall offhand any of the questions that I couldn't find non-video results for.
Google promoting videos hosted on a Google owned site that can earn them more money in ad sales over other relevant sites? Say it ain’t so!
After removing my tounge from cheek, this is an extremely annoying daily thing I have to deal with as well. I do searches expecting to quickly scan for the answer I need, but get results where the same text information has been converted to a video format. I can’t copy/paste text from a video.
I fully expect that in the next few years google will come out with some new innovation to convert these youtube videos into transcribed web pages complete with relevant photos taken from the video. Of course this will put video revenue at risk so will have to wait until some form of premium content business model takes off--maybe that already exists with youtube premium.
YouTube videos are a format produced with entertainment value in mind, for those with 5 to 10 minutes to burn.
Videos below the two minute mark are barely worth YouTube’s JS payload, nevermind the video buffer.
If you want 30 second videos, you need to go cruise for WEBM files on your favorite image board, and expect to find a cache of interesting GIF images along the way, but try to contain your frustration at the lack of audio.
(btw: Above 20 minutes, and honestly, I still find optical discs preferrable to streaming services for a number of practical reasons, but most importantly: physical transmission of a tangible object for any large corpus data will always beat electromagnetic broadcast over a shared medium. #mytwocents)