I have this exact problem.

Edit: nvm, found the solution

Hate it when I search an issue and the only other person with the same problem is me 5 years ago and I didn’t figure it out then either.

You are not the only one, trust me. Google just went to shit in the last years, so it's harder to find what you are looking for.

Kinda relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/979

True story. I was looking for an answer to an obscure problem and found it in a 10-year-old stackoverflow post. Then I looked more closely at the author…

Hey! Me from 10 years ago, stop being such a smart ass! It's obnoxious.

I play the numbers.... When this happens to me I assume I'm asking the wrong question

I find if I'm the only one on the internet having a problem unless it's a very specific niche application I'm probably doing something fundamentally wrong in my approach and should try figure out how other people normally do it

Don't worry, this just means your job is safe from being replaced by AI. No search results means no training data.

What if the answer is there but google refused to include it in your search results until you saw enough ads?

Remember kids: If you find a solution to a problem nobody on Google (or your search engine of choice) seems to has, put it as a blog post on your site!

My favorite is when you Google a problem and many, many people have the same problem but the company has never provided a solution.

It's surprising how useful ChatGpt is in these situations. Honestly, it's a great general purpose search engine.

Or the only person who phrases your issue this way) so many times I’ve found out that I just state my problem in an unusual way

You just need to spend a few hours trying weirder and unique ways to frame the issue and you might find the answer.

Worse. "Hey I have your problem ... ... nevermind I figured it out"

True story. x3

You describe your problem in the forum.

Moderator: "use Google, there is an answer to your question"

Google only gives you a link to your own thread in the forum.

What's worse is googling a specific thing and having the results be just chock full of generic copy pasted thing with similar name

Any one else getting this crash? Edit: Don't worry guys I fixed it

Hah.. I used to search up an issue and see my own unanswered question on reddit as the first result. ಠ_ಠ

for me when that happens, it usually turns out to be a simple but stupid mistake on my end

This is currently happening to me and I hate it.

Something between linux kernel 6.2 (working) and 6.7 (broken) and all I have at best is a generic warning message that yields just a few results and all are unrelated.

Or: Plenty of people have the problem, but nobody has figured it out.

And: Stack Overflow agrees that this is a dumb thing to want to do, anyway.

I love it when the reason I'm the only one with the problem is that I didn't notice something extremely obvious that solves that problem. I'm an idiot and shouldn't be trusted with anything ever.

I find it more frustrating when someone has already had the issue and received an answer, but unfortunately the solution is a link to a Microsoft forum that no longer exists.