# YouTube livestream fraudulent search results

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-livestream-fraudulent-search-results/744823>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 1, 2016, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-livestream-fraudulent-search-results/744823 "2016-02-01T07:12:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-livestream-fraudulent-search-results/744823/1 "2016-02-01T07:12:49Z")

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The wife and I have been watching episodes of our favorite TV program on YouTube. However, recently when we do a search for the latest episodes, we get a large number of, well, fake listings. Clicking on one of the listings results in a more or less incoherent video telling us to click on a link inside the video–which I don’t think I’m going to do. :dubious:

These “fraudulent” listings appear to be associated with live streaming; sometimes clicking on one gives, instead of the incoherent video, a message that says that “live session will be starting momentarily”, followed by no further activity.

The listings’ posters have obviously nonsense names, and typically a fairly low number of viewings.

Needless to say, having to plow through these useless search results makes YouTube considerably less pleasant.

Question: Is there a way to search YouTube and not return results which are live streams? Some setting somewhere I’m missing?

Question: Is there an official YouTube “submit your questions” page somewhere?

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-livestream-fraudulent-search-results/744823/2 "2016-02-01T07:19:10Z")

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You could try searching using Google. search for site:youtube.com xxxx where xxxx is what you’re looking for.

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-livestream-fraudulent-search-results/744823/3 "2016-02-01T07:19:22Z")

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I can’t find any way to exclude live streams from the results. But unless there’s a red “LIVE NOW” notice under the video in the search listings, it’s not a real live stream anyways, just something to keep you waiting on the page with the shady link for a few more seconds.

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**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-livestream-fraudulent-search-results/744823/4 "2016-02-01T07:32:20Z")

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> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> You could try searching using Google. search for site:youtube.com xxxx where xxxx is what you’re looking for.

No good, still get the useless “videos”.

I just submitted Google Feedback, but I confidently don’t expect any result from that.