YouTube will now let you filter short videos from search results

As part of a few Changes to its search filtersYouTube will allow you to search specifically for short videos or long videos. Currently, an unfiltered search shows a mix of long and short videos, which can be annoying if you only want to watch videos in one format or the other. But in the new search filters, among other options, you can choose to see “Videos”, which in my testing only showed a list of long videos, or “Shorts”, which shows only short videos.

YouTube is also removing the “Upload History – Last Hour” and “Sort by Rating” filters because they “do not work as expected and have contributed to user complaints.” The company will still offer other “Upload Date” filters, like “Today,” “This Week,” “This Month,” and “This Year,” and you can also find popular videos with the new “Popularity” filter, which replaces the “Views” sorting option. (With the new “Popularity” filter, YouTube says, “Our systems evaluate the number of times a video has been viewed and other relevant signals, like watch time, to determine how popular it is for that specific query.”)

YouTube also renamed the “Sort by” menu in search filters to “Prioritize,” saying that “this improved sort menu is intended to maximize usefulness.”