Has google stopped working for finding anything? - Lemmy.World

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?