I’m curious: why hasn’t google done this already?

Seems like a key part of ‘organizing all the world’s information’, right? Making YouTube searchable would open up their massive content library to discovery, and enable people to find content without having to rely on The Algorithm guessing what they might want to see...

In general the switch from users going to the internet and asking it to find them certain things, to going to the internet and having things selected for them and offered up as ‘recommendations’ seems like a key shift in how the internet functions to disseminate ideas...