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?

  • @jmanes
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    -111 months ago

    Yep, I use Kagi as well. Great results!

    • @SkyeHarith
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      -411 months ago

      Absolutely. It’s really nice that the middle tier now has unlimited searches too!

        • @SkyeHarith
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          211 months ago

          Ok? I never said it was cheap. Also, the whole “I want it for cheap” mentality is what got the world to where we are right now. I can afford to pay 10 dollars a month for a search engine because it saves me exponentially more in privacy and more importantly- time.

          • @Scolding7300
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            211 months ago

            I thought I deleted my comment, misread yours. I agree

            • @SkyeHarith
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              111 months ago

              Ah. My bad. I guess I was a bit needlessly aggressive with my comment too.