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?

  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    309·
    11 months ago

    A search engine does not have to watch a movie to know things about it, that’s absurd and never how its worked

    • merc
      15·
      11 months ago

      I didn’t say that, read again.

      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        61·
        11 months ago

        It would have to watch and listen to something in an audio-visual medium, and understand what it saw enough to form a plot summary

        I read it again and found that, where you say exactly what you said you didn’t

        • merc
          11·
          11 months ago

          You apparently lack reading comprehension. Try again.