# Google refuses to tell me what I just Googled.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-refuses-to-tell-me-what-i-just-googled/815527>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 6, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-refuses-to-tell-me-what-i-just-googled/815527 "2018-06-06T09:18:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-refuses-to-tell-me-what-i-just-googled/815527/1 "2018-06-06T09:18:03Z")

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I heard a song that I thought was worth listening to again so I used the Google function on my phone to identify it. However, I did not immediately take that information and use it to look that song up. So later, as I come back to the idea I find that Google has forgotten which song I looked up and neither love nor money will tell me what it was. Any ideas anyone? I thought Google was hungry to sell me stuff!

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**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-refuses-to-tell-me-what-i-just-googled/815527/2 "2018-06-06T10:45:10Z")

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If you were logged into Google when you did the original search, you should be able to find the search request you made on your [My Activity](https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity) page.

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**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-refuses-to-tell-me-what-i-just-googled/815527/3 "2018-06-06T11:20:33Z")

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The people in Cafe Society can often identify songs faster than google.

Describe the style of music? Pop, classic rock, EDM, jazz, country, progressive electro-trance, etc.  
Post any lyrics you can remember.  
Describe the tempo.  
Describe the vocals: male, female, duo, group.  
Describe the any instruments that you can identify.  
Name any similar songs.  
Where did you hear it? A country radio station? A TV show or movie?

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**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-refuses-to-tell-me-what-i-just-googled/815527/4 "2018-06-08T07:11:07Z")

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The My Activity page would only tell me that I had searched for things but not in any specific detail.

In any case, my wife left the radio on all day and the song ended up being played again. It was “I Feel Like I’m Drowning” by Two Feet.