Has google stopped working for finding anything?

sighofannoyance@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 603 points –

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?

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I would be very interested to know exactly what you were searching for.

The film was "john dies in the end" and OP didnt knownthe title, they were searching for the movie using a description of what they could remember from the film.

This is something i would very likely do in chat gpt these days.

I used to be able to find songs on google just by remembering a few lyrics but now when I try to do that all I find is garbage unfortunately.

Try to hum the song to Google assistant. Chances are it'll get it right with just 3-5 seconds of humming. L2use the tools at your disposal tbh

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I just read the movie plot (which seems to differ from the book) on wikipedia and searched in a non-logged-in google for "movie horror two friends dimensions drug dealer jamaican". First result is the wanted movie. What are people searching for that they get such bad results?

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