There is a new series just starting that is named only From. In this age of search-engine awareness, you would think marketing would look for a title that would produce slightly less overwhelming noise-to-signal ratio for searches. I’m wondering about other media titles with a similar problem. (They and It come to mind.)
(I think there was a more generic “hard to find” thread in one of the other fora, but—fittingly—I didn’t find it.)
Google is pretty good at trending words even if they tend to b e common.
I just Googled “From” and the first thing to pop up was “From” television series.
I have heard that about the band Cake. You can tell they named their band back in the 1990s before the internet was a big thing. You can’t Google them without specifying you’re searching for the band, and not cake recipes, or wedding cakes and such.
Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom and D. J. Bonebrake are all talented and influential musicians with one massive regret in their career.
I used to joke about the name of the band “The The” and the impossibility to google them, but nowadays Google has become so aware that the first match when searching for “The The” (even without the quotation marks) is the wiki page for the band.
Out of curiosity, I tried Googling Cake, and I got “based on your recent activity, showing results for ‘cake band’”. So Google figured out that since I had searched for other bands recently (I actually tried “The The” just before that) I wanted the band, and not the dessert.
I put in M. The first thing that came up is a song called M’$. The movie M was farther down. For the group named M (they did Pop Musik) I found it easily by putting in M band.
I remember trying to find info about the punk rock band X a number of years ago, and was having a real difficult time of it. I think Google has gotten better at it, though.
There’s a singer who goes by the name GGOOLLDD. She says she spells it like that so if someone searches the internet for her they won’t be directed to jewelry websites.
I have wondered if people have had difficulty searching for the movie xXx, given the association of XXX with porn, but I just tried it and I got the movie.
There was a one-hit wonder band called Copyright that appeared back in the Napster days but I was always under the impression they chose that name purposely.
Another band that’s really hard to Google or find on YouTube is “Love”. Usually have to search the front man, Arthur Lee.
I always found 24 difficult to search because the two number format confused most search engines which needed at least 3 alphabetical characters.
There’s an 80s band from New Zealand named Chrome Safari. Somehow they managed to choose two words which would become far more famous for being internet browsers.
Related thread Things that are tricky to Google
Remarkably, a search for Twice brings up the k-pop girl group immediately.
That works in most cases, and if you want to search bands with generic names like The The, Cake, Love, Bread, America etc. and the name alone doesn’t bring up relevant links on the front page, just add “band” to the search term and it’ll show up.
I keep getting hooked on music and shows that are hard to find.
Fellow Travellers, a band that was ahead of its time (in the late 80s/early 90s they were fusing folk and reggae and bluegrass and DUB (not Dubstep).
But it’s a common term, AND THEN another band came along and just gave themselves the same name. The fuuuu… could you really just name your new band Nirvana?
And I’ve been trying to find Season 2 of the TV show “Impulse” (excellent, moody “small-town teen discovering she has teleportation powers” show).
Apple TV/iTunes has Season 1, but quit offering Season 2… huh?
I google and get lots of other "Impulse"s… grrrrr.
Season 2 is now YouTube Premium only…
Just gave myself a little chuckle remembering what popped up whilst trying to do an internet search for Ford Truck parts back in the day…