For mere scrolling purposes, YouTube is the best option. Search one thing and you will get youtube likes of results. That is the beauty of social media. Even minor relevancy of the video can bring it to you, you will find it in the list of searches that came out.
But sometimes, for professional causes and sometimes for one specific reason, you may want your YouTube to get a bit more specific about what it gives you. For example, if you have entered a few words in the search engine, you might not always want diverse results but particular ones only. In this wake, YouTube presents another feature that might help, and call it “the Advanced Search Operations”. This feature lets you Search the YouTube like a pro.
Now you must be wondering as to how to make successful use of it in order to optimize your searches on YouTube and to get better and desired results. That is easy as well. Here is how you can make the best use of this feature to search like a pro.
“By Default” Operator
This option in the advanced YouTube operator is something best to go with when you are in a hurry to want the exact same thing as you searched for. When you enable this option, the searches you make would be a bit different than those made earlier. For example, on default, YouTube presents every video containing the similar phrases as your search, but when you enable “Search for Exact Matches”, you will get only those videos that are exactly the same.
Plus Operator
Rather than searching for a whole phrase, what about just one word? Yes, it sounds satisfactory. Using YouTube’s Advanced Search Operator, you can simply filter your search to just one word. It happens when you use the plus operator. After that, whenever you make a search with even one specific word, the only videos exactly matching it will appear, rather than those a bit irrelevant. It is better because sometimes, while generalizing your search, YouTube might ignore one or two terms from your search. So just go for it.
Minus Operator
This feature, the minus operator, has got the same importance for the opposite reasons. Sometimes, you yourself are not sure about what you should right in order to get access to a perfect result. This is possible too, using an advanced operator tool namely “Exclude Terms from Your Search”. This specifically generalizes your search, especially when you won’t get access to the overall one particular term or phrase.
Pipe Operator
This operator is predominantly useful when you want to make searches for several words at one particular interval. This helps to extremes as when you want your search to come back with at least one matching word to the overall search you have made, the pipe filter works there too. It might seem a bit uninteresting, but what would you do, if you have a faint memory of what you were about to search? Yes, now that makes sense.
Intitle Operator
When you make a search, your searched phrases or words might match the description of the videos that came out, but not the title. If you want your results to be according to the title of the videos, you must give a try to Intitle operator. When enabled, it only visualizes those videos having the same wording as your searched group of words.
Hashtag Operator
If you are a daily uploader of any of the social platforms, you must know the importance of hashtags. It increases the viability of your videos and posts. YouTube has now enabled its followers and users to search by hashtags even, you can search a word with a hashtag with it and every post and video containing that tag will come out. Does it sound amazing? Yes, it really does.
Wildcard Operator
This operator sounds a bit non-sense when you will first see it. But soon after you have got to know how to make a pro search through it, you are going to love it. When you are not sure about on specific word in your search phrase, leave a space or fill it with the symbol *. Once you have enabled the wildcard operator, your space will be automatically filled and you will get every genre of the results for that specific lacuna.
