Ask HN: Are there any alternate indexes / search engines for YouTube?

Ironically, Google’s federated tracking system (FLoC/Topics api), if probe-able, could probably be used to get you some competing suggestions for YouTube videos

There's the video results in the various search engines, like DDG, Bing, and Yahoo.

Goog won`t allow it.

Actually, from the terms of service:

> The following restrictions apply to your use of the Service. You are not allowed to: [...] 3. access the Service using any automated means (such as robots, botnets or scrapers) except (a) in the case of public search engines, in accordance with YouTube’s robots.txt file;