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Old 10-25-2024, 12:28 PM
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  • YouTube appears to be expanding its hyperlinked comments experiment.
  • Clicking on hyperlinked words or phases will initiate a search for related topics and information.
  • It appears the change is only being seen on mobile.

There are plenty of reasons to avoid scrolling through the comments section of a YouTube video. Now you’ll have one more reason to steer clear as hyperlinked comments are appearing more widely on mobile.

Back in 2023, it was revealed in a YouTube Creator Insider announcement that the platform would start running a limited experiment that would allow users to initiate a search on certain topics straight from the comments section. Specifically, a word in a comment could be hyperlinked if related information or topics are available. Any word chosen to be hyperlinked would appear blue with a magnifying glass next to it. Clicking on the hyperlink would take the user to a results page as their video continued to play in the mini-player.




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