[NoMoreNicksLeft]

It's been 5 or 6 years ago now, but one night I searched for torrents for a particular movie, and Google returned hundreds of results from a dozen sites... and the next evening they returned 0. I think it was an October.

While I don't doubt that a torrent link shows up once in awhile, Google no longer usefully searches for such things. Or really anything, legal or not. It's more like a purchase recommendation system pretending to be a search engine.

[cykros]

Google used to rule the net. These days they're not even the best search engine for legal content, let alone overall net searching.

Bing and Yandex will get you most everything you want.

[roncesvalles]

It seems Google's tech can't keep up with the scale of the Internet anymore. It simply doesn't index a very large portion of the Internet now.

[andrepd]

And a terrible one at that, as it points to the lowest-quality blogspam sludge possible.