Just watched John Wick 4, did a quick search to see if they are making a 5th one. This is the abysmal state of Google and the internet as we go into 2025.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Search anything remotely popular and you’re immediately thrown into this hellscape. I miss the days when a lack of information meant a lack of search results.
This is what’s now known as “internet pollution”. Its pretty rampant. Time is ripe for a new search engine. Similar to how Google cleaned up the AOL garbage in the 90s
Image search for ANY animal gives you crappy AI fakes 99% of the time
Wait until you see all the fake trailers on YouTube for another season of a show that you like that’s decently popular of pretty well edited parts of clips from other seasons
its actually insane how bad searching the internet has gotten as of late, back in like 2018 if I wanted an image of a specific weapon from a video game I could just search for the weapons name and the games name and I would see like 30 images of it, lately when I have tried I just get random AI generated fake images or unrelated images and I have to go find the wiki page to see the thing I am looking for. absolute insanity
I wouldn’t mind going back to this at that point.
Within the past week, he’s said “no” to *John Wick 5* because his knees can’t take it.
Also: hot tip: you can turn on Google “classic” and not see any AI crap results.
Whenever I look up “does x movie have mid credit scene” its usually 4 articles down, and I’m that article, have to go through 5 paragraphs explaining the movie, then saying to read on to find an answer, then it often doesnt.
I’m just numb to it now, but your post angries up my blood. Why must it always get worse
Woohoo, IT jobs with Google-Fu expertise are still saved for another millennium
i hope its possible to roll all this shit back.. google *really* took it upon themselves to ruin their own platform (seems to be a trend nowadays lol)
Use DuckDuckGo. Just swapped. No AI. Just search results.
I honestly stopped using google search. It’s become almost useless as a search engine. It’s an ad and AI engine now. That’s all it shows you. I hate to say it, but Bing is better, even if only a little bit.
Honestly it makes 0 sense for the first tab to show images and news
The first tab should be just website links and the “people also ask” section
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I swear it used to be called “Search” but now it’s called “all”
And I thought it was only just me thinking that Google as fucking dumbed down over the past 5 years or so. Yeah, lately, I can’t find anything relevant whatsoever. Seems like a waste of time.
Dead internet *theory*? No, no. Dead internet **reality**.
Google has turned into such trash.
There’s the issue shown here with TV shows and movies which is just getting exponentially worse because both sides of the issue feed off of each other. It’s common for people to want to look up the next season or sequel, so that has led to people creating YouTube videos that fabricate that, and the more of those that are made the more google gets poisoned by them.
But a similar yet separate issue is KEYWORD STUFFING by AI on whole sites that are just infinite AI made wastelands. If you look up something like “how tall is XYZ celebrity?” All of the results are “blogs” that are basically just AI generated/populated websites. The title of the website will involve words like celebrity or musician and it’s a clearly bad AI synopsis similar to Wikipedia that is written in this choppy strange way that is just garbage keyword stuffing. And whatever you’re looking for is going to be deeply buried in that garbage or potentially not even there because those words aren’t actually in the bad AI write up, they are just stuffed in below. Often down at the bottom they will just put in this seemingly infinite scroll of words packed in to maximize their potential of being what shows up. Sometimes not even related words, they’ll be political terms and medical terms and just anything that may booster potential for visibility with whatever googles algorithm is.
The motivation of course is to get ad views. At least if you click on one of these pages it’s very quickly apparent that it’s one of these horseshit websites because there are ads on every side of the page.
All right first noticed it when I was looking up specific actors or actresses and started checking around and it includes musicians more now, and it’s started to include historical figures, information about plants, animals, and now medical stuff which is especially concerning.(I’m sure tons of other things but this is just the kind of things I have looked up and began to see it for)
**It seems incredibly dangerous in ways I don’t think we have even begun to see the full extent of. While most people hear know that kind of stuff is garbage, there are huge numbers of people that lack any amount of media literacy.**
I mean we’ve seen interference in our information through news sources and Facebook, but what happens when we completely poison other information sources and there are more places with bad info than good?
I’m in my 30s and I have a pretty good handle on how to utilize Google and what words to actually bother typing into a search to get the information that I’m looking for, except that kind of thing doesn’t even matter now. At this point I usually just type in the word Reddit if there maybe an answer here.
Having seen John Wick 4, I cannot imagine how bad 5 would be.
Jumped the shark does not come close to describing how bad 4 was.
5 is just about seeing how much more money they can extract from moviegoers from a depleted franchise rather than come up with a new plot.
I definitely agree that this is super dumb. But I just want to say the articles not being the original interviews with Keanu Reeves is not a big deal. Articles often use info from other interviews or other sources of info. I don’t think the articles (at least the Game Rant one) are claiming to be anything they aren’t.
Look up “Ballerina John Wick.” It’s coming out June 6 2025.
Not that Google is in a good state or heading in a great direction,but simply putting the name of the thing on Google is just bad Google Fu in most cases and has been the case since the site was created.
Step 1: make everything shitty with AI
Step 2: sell people AI pewered shit to solve the problem
Step 3: profit!
And I thought that google went full rock bottom when they started showing ads instead of search results more than a decade ago when they dumbified google search.
I never see this crap, because I stopped using Google a few years ago and I am now using DuckDuckGo. I encourage you to do so too, it’s pretty good.
the other day, someone asked a question on reddit, and there were comments that why not just google the information. and this post reminds me of that question. it really has become a challenge to find the useful info from a quick google search, and reddit posts seem to be much quicker access to accurate information.
There is a lot of recycled and invented material out there these days, especially in relation to movies.
As someone who is involved with the John Wick series, I can say this: there will be a new film but not for at least 2-3 years as the team is involved with Highlander right now and several sequels/spin-offs are also planned for that franchise too.
Edited for spelling.
Just put “-ai” after your search string.
You managed to get through John Wick 4 and your first thought afterwards was…I hope they’re making another one?
But yep Google search is also trash now. Need to skip past promoted links and reddit posts to actually get to someone approaching useful most of the time.
Switch to duckduckgo
Maybe next time just ask the question “Will there be a John Wick 5?”
To be fair 200 years ago the internet knew nothing now it knows Keanu reeves was in John wick.
If Google refused to shell out ad money to people posting clickbait and fake content I think this would stop fast.
Easiest solution is to have a tiny widget in the browser that always whenever you download the results, it autoscrolls past this bullshit,
Shit, i would think i could make gpt make that code for me.
and ofc people are going to use this to spread transphobic misinformation, just watch
The guy got shot. Please let him be dead in peace…
I legitimately miss the pornsite minefield of 1999 Yahoo search results. At least It wasn’t 30 copies of the exact same informationless robo article with different skins.
Tried looking up elder scrolls 6 today. If you believed this similar page, it was out for years.
For those who don’t know, there’s only been announcement it’s coming out. Almost 7 years ago.
Believe it or not there are already fake trailers for John Wick Chapter 6 and the search result is almost just as bad.
I’m noticing the same as well, searching for any teasers/trailers for unreleased/future films and you get a whole bunch of fake ones
And they’re usually titled something like “OFFICIAL trailer for XX!”
Then in the description they say it’s a “concept” trailer or teaser.
There is the possibility that the lack of clear information is in fact the answer that you seek.
What’s so bad about the IMDb page?
How about just not using Google then?