diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
index bf0fbc924..f420b8148 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py
@@ -1698,14 +1698,14 @@ class YoutubeSearchURLIE(InfoExtractor):
webpage = self._download_webpage(url, query)
result_code = self._search_regex(
- r'(?s)
', webpage, u'result HTML')
+ r'(?s)', webpage, u'result HTML')
part_codes = re.findall(
r'(?s)(.*?)
', result_code)
entries = []
for part_code in part_codes:
part_title = self._html_search_regex(
- r'(?s)title="([^"]+)"', part_code, 'item title', fatal=False)
+ [r'(?s)title="([^"]+)"', r'>([^<]+)'], part_code, 'item title', fatal=False)
part_url_snippet = self._html_search_regex(
r'(?s)href="([^"]+)"', part_code, 'item URL')
part_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(