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?
I’m using Duckduckgo for a while now. Pretty good
DDG is great for privacy, but their results are mostly just Bing results. Which is usually fine, but rarely excellent.
It’s a ruzzian company right?
I think they’re french ?!
Perplexity AI says: "Answer No, DuckDuckGo is not a Russian company. It is an American software company based in Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and offers a private search engine and other privacy-oriented software products. "
Well, in that case, fuch google, I’m out.
Yea don’t look back
For me it’s a bigger hit or miss. I never found what I wanted on DDG.