Actually, you can limit YT searches to before a certain date. If you type in something, add in "before:[date]"
For instance, if you want videos from before 2011 about, say, Monaco, you'd enter your search like so: Monaco before:2011
Done my good deed for the day lol
Huh, I didn't know that worked on YouTube. I've been using it liberally in Google search. Good to know, thanks!
Here's some other useful ones for Google in return, putting something in quotes will search for exactly that string of characters rather than keywords. I use it for niche games that have results get mixed up with other games.
Example:
"Stationeers" best way to run an electrolyzer
That game gets mixed up with the more popular Oxygen Not Included in searches.
There's also site:, if you put site: in your search terms, you can search a specific website. I use this to pull up Reddit results quite often. For example, imagine I want to know how to partition my hard drive, but find tech articles grating. I'd search
How to partition hard drive site:reddit.com
I also use that to filter out other video sites when searching for videos. I'd rather not find what I'm looking for than make an account to watch it on Facebook.
I knew about the site: one, but I didn't know I could search with only part of my entry in quotation marks! I thought it only worked if you wanted a specific word/sentence as the whole search. Thanks a lot, that'll make finding some old stuff I've been having trouble re-earthing loads easier!
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u/jonny24eh 10h ago
Yeah the date is the first thing i check when I look for history YouTube videos. So many videos have been put out in the last 2 months, 6 months etc.
And of course YTs filters don't have full functionality. You can ser a recency window but you can't set to "Before X" at all.