Google search failed to even find a hollywood movie, even after 1 hour of attempts. I don’t really care about the movie, but I am terrified by the prospect that google now ceased to function on this basic level. Why is this happening?

I understand the explanations of seo and other stuff like spam content. But why are there NO relevant results at all.

I wouldn’t mind having to start wading through results at page 2 or even 10 but now it utterly fails to find even the most basic things.

Things you found on the first attempt even just a year ago. Now they are effectively hidden.

To me functionally the entire internet has now vanished. I cannot access anything that I am searching for. Might as well not exist at all.

Has anybody found a way around this?

Is this on purpose? Is this an attack on the free internet, herding people to just the top 5 sites like facebook, youtube, tiktok, and so forth?

Are there search engines that still work?

  • @quaddo
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    81 year ago

    I’ll be the dense lunkhead and ask/say the obvious:

    https://www.google.com/search?q=find+a+Hollywood+movie

    I’m guessing you were trying to find a specific, older movie?

    OT, but now I’m disappointed to have discovered that LMGTFY’s SSL throws a NSURLErrorDomain error. I would have used that instead.

    • @sighofannoyanceOP
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      31 year ago

      Yes, the movie I mentioned was about a multidimensional entity that took hold in a biological computer created in a parallel dimension where they never got transistors but got dna instead at an early stage. Subsequently creating a biological computer that had like one giant yellor or blue eye and tentacles and just and amorphous blob of tissue in a tank.

      this thing tries to take over earth’s dimension aswell so the two protagonists go over to their dimension and kill the thing.

      • @Apeman42
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        131 year ago

        John Dies at the End?

        • @Marcumas
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          51 year ago

          I guess I’ll be ‘that guy’ and say that the book is much better.

      • @workerONE
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        1 year ago

        You should have said you didn’t know the name of the movie. It seemed like you searched the movie name and found nothing for an hour.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Have you figured it out yet because this sounds like an interesting premise and I would like to know the movie as well.

        • @sighofannoyanceOP
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          61 year ago

          another Lemming knew the movie: “John dies in the end”

        • @angrystego
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          41 year ago

          Apeman42 was offering the answer, not asking about a character. It’s called John dies at the end.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        @[email protected] Can you name the movie with the following description: "movie based on a book about a multidimensional entity that took hold in a biological computer created in a parallel dimension where they never got transistors but got dna instead at an early stage. Subsequently creating a biological computer that had like one giant yellor or blue eye and tentacles and just and amorphous blob of tissue in a tank.

        this thing tries to take over earth’s dimension aswell so the two protagonists go over to their dimension and kill the thing."