# Google Shot-for-Shit Advanced Search **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 20, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-shot-for-shit-advanced-search/921061 "2020-09-20T04:52:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-shot-for-shit-advanced-search/921061/10 "2020-10-10T23:18:41Z")
Once I was looking for information about the television series called “United States” > [@Things that are tricky to Google](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272): > > The other day, I was thinking about an obscure short-lived comedy series called “United States” and wanted to learn more about it. Googling " ‘United States’ television series" was not helpful. Eventually, I used the IMDB search which gave me the name of the star (Beau Bridges) and I was able to use that information to find articles about what I was actually looking for [United States (TV series) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_(TV_series)) Today, I wanted to learn a little more about the USENET slang term “AOL” (which I know… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-shot-for-shit-advanced-search/921061)._