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?

  • @[email protected]
    6•1 year ago

    I struggled finding reviews of Asgard’s Wrath 1 on the Quest 2 headset. Google just assumes I want the newest game.

  • @[email protected]
    66•1 year ago

    What happened is SEO got good and money got made and fortunes got made and greed has taken over.

    The internet today is the equivalent of the first and last 10 pages of the old yellowbooks. Why do you think AAA Auto is called what it’s called?

  • @[email protected]
    32•1 year ago

    This is what capitalism does. A constant battle of finding the lowest quality to price ratio. Everything will naturally gravitate to the shitiest cheapest version of itself.

  • MelllvarEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    This is why the big search engines are throwing money at large language models. They hope AI-curated results is the next revolutionary advance.

  • @[email protected]
    38•1 year ago

    This is why

    The long and short of it - Google search was designed at a time when the web was in its infancy. Basically just text and a few images.

    Fast forward to today, and reddit is the only one that still allows its data to be crawled.

    As media has become more social (basically all of it) the walled gardens prevent you from even viewing content without an account.

    Every platform wants you to be searching inside their service.

    Google is useless.

  • PikaEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    I use Bing AI for complex results and duck duck go mostly, I can’t use Google search, it brings too much curated content that is different then the query

  • AlphaOmega
    55•1 year ago

    The biggest issue I have is that half my results come back as videos. Video results should be in the video tab. I don’t want to watch a half hour long video just to find out how to make a healing brew in ark.
    One paragraph would convey the information 10x faster than any video could

  • @[email protected]
    11•1 year ago

    Just today I was searching for a news article about a local radio personality who got fired in the last few days. Zero relevant results. Just extraneous garbage. I was stunned.

  • @[email protected]
    22•1 year ago

    The first result is always an ad that is irrelevant or outright misleading, sometimes dangerous.

    The second result is a plug for some stupid Google tie-in service like Shopping or Maps.

    The third or fourth result is usually what I was after, if not I usually have to change my query.

    Tried to switch to DDG a few years ago but it’s index was a bit lacking for my day job, may try it again though as Google is getting increasingly frustrating to use. And just not a fan of their ecosystem.