YouTube is finally adding a filter to include or exclude Shorts from your search results
YouTube is rolling out enhancements to its search filters designed to make finding content more efficient and user-friendly. Following feedback from users, the platform has focused on providing advanced search tools that better match how viewers look for videos.
A significant update is the introduction of a dedicated Shorts filter. This new filter lets users decide whether search results should show Shorts, long-form videos, or both, putting more control in the hands of viewers who want to focus on their preferred format. This change has drawn positive reactions on social platforms, with some users expressing relief that a long-requested feature is finally here.
Building on these improvements, YouTube has changed the names of some sorting tools. The previous Sort By menu is now called Prioritize, and the View count sort option has been replaced by Popularity. The new Popularity measure takes into account both view counts and additional relevance factors, such as watch time, to surface videos that best match a search query.
In response to complaints about underused or ineffective filters, YouTube has also removed the Upload Date - Last Hour and Sort by Rating options. However, users can still find recent or highly-viewed content using the updated set of filters.
- Video Sharing Tool
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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External links
- Changes to YouTube Search Filters to Improve Content DiscoveryYouTube • Official source
- YouTube will now let you filter Shorts out of search resultsThe Verge
- YouTube will let you exclude Shorts from search resultsEngadget
- YouTube rolling out search filters update that renames and removes9to5Google
- YouTube makes a big change in the way you'll see contentAndroid Police
- YouTube now lets you filter search results to only see ShortsDigital Trends
Comments
Hi from France, just letting you know the option to exclude Shorts from search results wasn't find. I guess I am greatful to know how to create userscripts and userstyles to modify YouTube so I can make :
Finally! I guess as Open Source became a threat they realized they actually did need customers, the problem is their algorithm was turning user into Nazi, Communist, Libertarians and Anarchist and they didn't care while the money was flowing.
They also removed the "Prioritize" options.
Hell, I've been blocking Shorts with a browser extension for so long that I nearly forgot they existed.
The only issue I have with shorts is how many of them are uncredited cuts of someone else's work and how you can't easily view the video information or anything. I guess that is the whole point though.
Really? No mattter what W
YouTube gets, as long as they engage in enshittification such as:
it's still an L, so you should stop watching centralized "content" (sic) on GulagTube (or any proprietary platform such as Netflix and Spotify) and instead, use its "alternatives" (sic) or self-host by creating your own
MediaGoblin or 
PeerTube.
Yeah no thanks bud