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?

  • @MashedTech
    30•11 months ago

    I would be very interested to know exactly what you were searching for.

    • @Mr_Dr_Oink
      17•11 months ago

      The film was “john dies in the end” and OP didnt knownthe title, they were searching for the movie using a description of what they could remember from the film.

      This is something i would very likely do in chat gpt these days.

      • @[email protected]English
        20•11 months ago

        I used to be able to find songs on google just by remembering a few lyrics but now when I try to do that all I find is garbage unfortunately.

      • @[email protected]
        1•11 months ago

        I just read the movie plot (which seems to differ from the book) on wikipedia and searched in a non-logged-in google for “movie horror two friends dimensions drug dealer jamaican”. First result is the wanted movie. What are people searching for that they get such bad results?