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?

  • HjFUN@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    6 months ago

    I’ve always had the opposite, that a movie having a certain title absolutely destroys that term or phrase’s use unless all you want is that movie.

    • NoneYa@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

      This is what I hate. Sometimes I like to search up “life on mars” and see the various pictures people have created and the images people claim have life in them.

      But I always get results for a television show of the same name that has absolutely nothing to do with the planet…

    • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      6 months ago

      People trying to look up the Kirby character “Zero Two” to find fan creations based on it…

      Only to get barraged with weeb garbage.

      Seriously you used to easily find fan content, remixes and music. Now all you get are shitty AMVs of some turbovirgins “Waifu”