Youtube – Identifying Defunct YouTube links

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Suppose we have stored a YouTube link in our favorites or folder, without anything to identify what the link might have been, as the link at YouTube has now removed/unavailable after some unknown period of time.

Is there a (slim) chance a search bot will later detect any text associated with the vid to help identify what it was?

Best Answer

The method below may not be reliable if the youtube urls are re-used:

Tried separating two components of the link as such:

youtube identifier

and pasting them in a browser searchbox.

Was lucky in a particular instance with this removed link- only because it was directly siphoned off elsewhere (but still unusable). But most common browsers will remove matching text- the Deep Web may handle it differently.