These are all products that I legitimately like and want to engage with, but linking them all to a single account and more importantly a shared recommendation engine feels very flawed.
My music playlists from Youtube Music keep showing up on my Youtube homepage. Likewise, engaging with Youtube Shorts (especially subscribing) also subscribes to their youtube channel. I don’t know about anyone else, but what I find interesting in a 30 second video is not what I find interesting in a 10-30 minute video.
I feel like Google would be better served separating these recommendation engines. Even looking at this from a monetization lens, it feels inefficient. How do you guys feel? If you have any hacks or recommendations I’d love to hear them. I’m personally ready to create a TikTok account just to avoid contaminating my youtube feed.
Google random song generator is the best song suggester I’ve ever used. Spotify’s new dj thing is starting to get close but it’s radio was super far off what gpm had. I also like gpm because it was really good for obscure small bands.
Out if all the dead Google products the two that really left me sad was gpm and inbox.
@saigot Indeed. Also Spotify Stations was a great app too, it was dedicated to radio like stations for specific artists or genres that was pretty great for finding indie bands as well. I miss that one a lot too, all the great apps have become defunct :(