YouTube is a great way to waste a LOT of time! My favorite thing to get on YouTube is music videos - here's a video by one of my favorite artists, Iron and Wine:
I found it fairly easy to search for videos using the search box. I like how they offer search suggestions, I assume based on previous search strings, as you type. I also used the video tab to see Most Recent, Most Viewed, Most Discussed, etc., which I found pretty fun. The subject directory wasn't all that useful as it is more time-consuming to drill down to what you want - keyword searching is so much quicker! But if you don't know exactly what you want I guess it might be useful.
As a reference librarian I can't recall too many reference questions that could be answered with YouTube but it's not inconceivable that I will get one in the future, so I will definitely keep this in mind.
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