Just found out that YouTube has been rolling out a feature called Ask YouTube for a bit over a month now - didn’t see it until today. I think you have to be a premium user to see it in the search bar.

Let’s compare:

I tried pasting in a channel and question. Not bad, especially because it also surfaces tables and other recommendations:

You also don’t have to limit yourself to one channel. YouTube will always have much better proprietary access to data.

Using AskChannel:

One distinct thing I do differently is surface the actual spoken lines with timestamps for that exact quote. So arguably a bit more detailed.