Every time I google a solution for a simple problem (like where to find a feature of a software in its menus or how to calculate something) I always have to navigate past the dozen youtube links to find the article or manual that tells me the solution in 10 lines of text.
If your tutorial could be a webpage then you shouldn’t do it.

Edit: to all the people that suggest to make a specific query in the search, that’s just a partial solution because there are times I don’t know the entity of the solution and youtube could be a good place to look for.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t help when you’re question has a one word answer, but there are a dozen 20 minute videos on YouTube to answer your question.

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      1 year ago

      Yes it does. “-Youtube” excludes all youtube videos from being displayed in the search results.

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        1 year ago

        I think they’re saying there could be 30 second video with the answer, but most of them aren’t