i've got a subscription for ChatGPT and tend to use it over Google, unless I know Google has decent results.
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My job as a Linux admin/automation engineer has become way more difficult now that a primary tool has become nearly useless. I didn't go to college, I learned from 0 to computer automation engineer essentially googling my way, I don't think that would be possible now.
There are very good alternatives to Google nowadays actually. I haven't used Google in a long time. I've been jumping between brave search and startpage. Mostly brave search. Only thing Google has going for it is maps when searching for a business. Brave only shows the business in a basic form and show when they open and close for the day, whereas Google shows a lot more, including directions that open Google maps when clicked. They also show business hours for the whole week, reveiews...blah. other than that, I've been very happy with brave search and startpage
"a Hollywood movie"
Wow that's so specific. What were you searching for? What were your parameters? You tried for an hour? Sounds like you don't know anything about the movie. If you don't know anything about it how can you expect a search engine to? It searches what you tell it, and it sounds like you didn't tell it anything helpful.
I keep hearing people complain about Google becoming unusable, but I never run into this issue. Anyone have specific examples of searches that should have worked in the past, but don't work now?
I don't use Google that often, but when I do, my search is specific enough to work. Some of my recent searches are "Skacket" (a specific Minecraft server plugin,) "Google Sheets newline in cell", "Sedecordle", and "Jeffrey Wright imdb".
I'd never have expected it to work for such questions as "movie with smart guy who stretches". Those kinds of questions are better suited for AIs like ChatGPT, in my opinion.