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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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[–] quaddo 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ll be the dense lunkhead and ask/say the obvious:

https://www.google.com/search?q=find+a+Hollywood+movie

I’m guessing you were trying to find a specific, older movie?

OT, but now I’m disappointed to have discovered that LMGTFY’s SSL throws a NSURLErrorDomain error. I would have used that instead.

[–] sighofannoyance 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Yes, the movie I mentioned was about a multidimensional entity that took hold in a biological computer created in a parallel dimension where they never got transistors but got dna instead at an early stage. Subsequently creating a biological computer that had like one giant yellor or blue eye and tentacles and just and amorphous blob of tissue in a tank.

this thing tries to take over earth's dimension aswell so the two protagonists go over to their dimension and kill the thing.

[–] Apeman42 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Marcumas 5 points 11 months ago

I guess I'll be 'that guy' and say that the book is much better.

[–] sighofannoyance 2 points 11 months ago
[–] workerONE 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You should have said you didn't know the name of the movie. It seemed like you searched the movie name and found nothing for an hour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Were you trying to find its name? I didn't think Google was ever good at that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Have you figured it out yet because this sounds like an interesting premise and I would like to know the movie as well.

[–] sighofannoyance 6 points 11 months ago

another Lemming knew the movie: "John dies in the end"

[–] angrystego 4 points 11 months ago

Apeman42 was offering the answer, not asking about a character. It's called John dies at the end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If you enjoy books, the book is so so much better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

@[email protected] Can you name the movie with the following description: "movie based on a book about a multidimensional entity that took hold in a biological computer created in a parallel dimension where they never got transistors but got dna instead at an early stage. Subsequently creating a biological computer that had like one giant yellor or blue eye and tentacles and just and amorphous blob of tissue in a tank.

this thing tries to take over earth's dimension aswell so the two protagonists go over to their dimension and kill the thing."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago