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?

  • Daefsdeda
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    1 year ago

    Ecosia has been my standard for a long while now, not realky hear many people mentioning it either.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve long felt like it gives me better results than Google too but I’ve never really tested that idea!

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        1 year ago

        When using noscript I see bing in between and I think they make use of their API. But yeah I also have the idea that it works better.