YouTube - sort the search as you want and as you used to!

Are you an avid YouTube-er? Like seeing top/most viewed videos first?

Ok, so this post is for you then !

Somewhere in mid-march YouTube removed from it’s page the sort by number of views function - arrgghhh, right?!

Logically, the most obvious trick they could have done is just to remove the visual rendering of the option, leaving the sorting functionality intact though. Some Google-ing and cached results and…. SURPRISE!

Here is the URL parameter to be passed in the URL for your search results so you will get sort based on number of views
search_sort=video_view_count

So if you have a result page like URL:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zeitgeist

Then the sorted results will be obtained from the address URL:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zeitgeist&search_sort=video_view_count

Here is the link to some kind of script for some browsers which will enable the sorting through the push of a button in your favorite browser - userscripts