YT Finder

Public title index

Find what you mean on YouTube, not what the algorithm decides.

YT Finder looks for public YouTube videos, then lets you decide what relevance means: exact phrases, word coverage, word order, popularity, recency, concise titles, and whether mainstream media channels should stay in view.

Query desk

Find matching titles

No account

Results open on YouTube. Source, date, duration, and ranking changes rerun the search.

Control desk

Refine the result pool

Source, date, duration, and ranking controls rerun the current search.

Open ranking guide

Source filter

Hide mainstream media channels

De-emphasize large news and TV outlets when you want creator uploads, older community videos, or less institution-heavy results. The list is maintained manually and expands over time.

Date filter

Posted date

Quick windows or exact bounds. Changes rerun the current search, and unknown dates are hidden while active.

Any time

Duration filter

Video length

Quick presets or exact minute bounds. Changes rerun the current search, and videos without duration data are excluded while active.

Any length

Ranking controls

Weight the remaining results

Changing weights reruns the current search with updated ranking signals.

Balanced preset

Starter queries

Ranking method

  1. Title evidence

    Exact phrase, word coverage, and word order carry the default sort.

  2. Context signals

    Popularity and recency can matter, but they no longer drown out the title.

  3. Open scoring

    Each result can show the score breakdown used to place it.

YT Finder is independent and unaffiliated with YouTube or Google. Search availability can depend on upstream sources.