What Happened to Google's Movie Audience Scores?
Google quietly removed the "% of users liked this film" score from search. We archived 11,290 of them before they disappeared.
The short answer
If you used to Google a movie and see a line like "87% of Google users liked this film," you may have noticed it's gone. You're not imagining it, and it isn't just your computer or your account. Around 2026, Google removed the in-search movie and TV rating feature for everyone, on every device, in every region.
The score that showed what percentage of regular people enjoyed a film, plus the thumbs up / thumbs down you could tap right in search results, no longer exists. Google did not announce it loudly, which is why you'll find people asking "what happened?" on TikTok and Google's own help forums, but almost nothing on Reddit.
What exactly got removed
Anyone signed into Google could rate a movie or show directly in search, no review and no ticket required. That voting mechanism is gone.
The aggregate percentage that those votes produced, the single most casual, broadest audience score on the internet, no longer appears in the knowledge panel. Google now surfaces Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic instead.
Why did Google remove it?
The reason that comes up consistently is spam control. Because anyone could vote with one tap and no verification, the system was easy for automated bots to manipulate with fake ratings. Rather than try to police it, Google appears to have retired the feature entirely. (Some of the loudest claims about other motives, like studio pressure, are speculation from opinion pieces, not confirmed fact.)
The catch: those scores are now irreplaceable
Because Google stopped collecting these votes, the data is frozen forever. No site can generate a new Google audience score, and Google itself no longer shows the old ones. If a movie's Google score wasn't saved somewhere before the feature was pulled, it's simply gone.
ThumbScore archived them
ThumbScore had been collecting these Google audience scores for years. When Google removed the feature, we kept what we had: 11,290 movies with their original Google audience score, captured before they vanished.
On any movie that has one, you'll see the Google score on its page, clearly marked "archived." It's the exact percentage of Google users who liked the film, frozen at the moment Google still tracked it. As far as we can tell, this is the only public place you can still look these up.
What about brand-new movies?
Since Google no longer collects these ratings, films released after the feature shut down will never get a Google audience score. For those, ThumbScore shows the closest honest alternative: the TMDB user rating, an average score from everyday viewers on The Movie Database. We label it plainly as an "audience score" rather than dress it up as something it isn't. You still get a real-people number, just from a source that's still alive.
How to find a movie's Google score
Search any film on ThumbScore. If we archived its Google audience score, it's right there on the page next to the critics score, with the "archived" tag. No account, no paywall.
Look up the Google audience score for any movie
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