Google search failed to even find a hollywood movie, even after 1 hour of attempts. I donโt 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 wouldnโt 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?
The only downside of DDG is that it doesnโt have a decade or two of algorithm data to personalise your searches and sort of โlearnโ what you mean with certain terms.
Not like I miss it too much. Itโs just a mild culture shock to suddenly having to be more clear with my searches
It just occurred to me that this ability to communicate with a search engine, that everyone used to call Google-fu, was exactly this! It didnโt already know (or think it knew) what you were getting at, and itโs took some practice to figure out how to finesse the results.