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?

  • Anon124@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    191·
    11 months ago

    In google search for

    “kirby” “zero two”

    And you only get the kirby results. And if you want to filter out the kirby weeb crossovers you add a

    -darling

    • yamanii@lemmy.world
      17·
      11 months ago

      Didn’t even need the quotations and google knows I’m a weeb, that person is just making a mountain of a mole hill because the newest character with the same name is more popular.

      • DrQuint@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        This is because google, surprise surprise, actually knows who you are.

        I have very similar results looking for things like Dota 2 hero names. It knows Bane is the nightmare purple monster, not the masked walking meme batman villain, and I don’t have to specify.

        What google is TRULY garbage at is answering questions.

      • Anon124@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Google will nag you and not show them, but if you press the “I really mean what I searched for” thing then it usually works for me. I just wish Google would trust that I know what I typed. But yeah I remember it being better.