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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    1 year ago

    I hear a lot of people complaining about how they can’t find stuff with Google, but it seems to work fine for me? i don’t know what I’m doing differently

    I use brave as well, but in my opinion Google searches work better for me? I guess I’m just more used to it or something, for some reason I find things quicker on Google and also I often rely on the search bar calculator with chrome which doesn’t work as well on brave (since in order to get my answer, I have to press enter after entering in an expression. not sure if there’s a way to change this)

    edit note: I mostly use search engines to look up random information or for programming

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      I’ve not noticed any problems with Google myself but I just did the same search you did. It brought up Google maps at the top, quite helpful as it showed local photographers. But as I went down to the results the only one in my local area was the top result. The rest were things like photographers in Majorca, Peterborough, a random motorcycle website.

      I’ve never noticed how broken Google is until now.