Yeah, I noticed this a while ago. You'd think they know how to make a proper search engine because it's owned by Google, but the Google search engine is getting worse too.The YouTube search function feels worse.
Like, there's too much focus on trying to recommend me videos and shorts rather than giving me what I'm actually looking for.
I don't need my unrelated recommendations popping up in my YouTube searches and I don't need AI generated results thrown in my face when using Google.