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?

  • Vqhm@lemmy.world
    195·
    11 months ago

    Bro,

    I have been using Google before 2000

    Had an early invite to Gmail. Got mobile search results over text message before smart phones.

    Google maps didn’t even launch until 2005.

    Some of us went places and did things before Google+

    I don’t disagree that if I want to go somewhere I might search g maps.

    But the search results are really shit lately.

    I miss competition with several web spiders