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?

  • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    What I’ve noticed with the summarizing is that it’ll pull a quote that says something close to the search term. When in context of the article the quote is a rhetorical question and often goes on to say, “No, actually the opposite is true.”. Of course the second part of the sentence is left out of the summary.

    Wild shit!