Most of the time when searching around YouTube for videos, you can easily find what you want. But since there are a ton of videos, the search results can end up being a long list.
Instead of sifting through a long list, and viewing them one by one, videos can be searched by playlists. Playlists are a great way to group related videos together, which can be later played one after another. Also, searching by playlists lets you find groups of videos that are more related to your search query.
To search YouTube videos by playlists, just enter your search word or phrase in the search box, then using the pull down arrow (next to the search box), select Playlists . Now, click on the Search button to enter your search.
One thing you will notice is that the search results returned are significantly less than if you just searched for videos instead of playlist.
But you can further target your search and narrow down the number of playlists returned in the search results, by specifying a specific category.
To do this, mouse over the word Categories (shown below) to display the drop down menu. From here you can select the best category in the list that relates to your search.
For my example, "ubuntu' search, if I select the category 'Science & Technologies', the search results are much less and more targeted, allowing me to find exactly what I want faster.
Now that we found exactly what were looking for, we can watch all the videos in the playlist by clicking on the 'Play all videos' link.
I found by searching for videos by playlist, seems to return better search results. I guess YouTube users are much better at organizing videos than what YouTube search can provide in their basic search.
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