# Media that is difficult to google? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896 "2022-02-21T22:39:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/1 "2022-02-21T22:39:51Z")
There is a new series just starting that is named only _[From](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_(TV_series))_. 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/2 "2022-02-21T22:47:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/3 "2022-02-21T22:52:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/4 "2022-02-21T23:52:56Z")
Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom and D. J. Bonebrake are all talented and influential musicians with one massive regret in their career. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/5 "2022-02-22T00:07:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/6 "2022-02-22T00:13:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/7 "2022-02-22T00:13:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/8 "2022-02-22T00:20:36Z")
I remember trying to find info about the punk rock band [X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(American_band)) a number of years ago, and was having a real difficult time of it. I think Google has gotten better at it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/9 "2022-02-22T01:00:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/10 "2022-02-22T01:24:18Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I remember trying to find info about the punk rock band [X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(American_band)) a number of years ago, and was having a real difficult time of it. 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. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/11 "2022-02-22T04:19:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/12 "2022-02-22T06:08:47Z")
Another band that’s really hard to Google or find on YouTube is “Love”. Usually have to search the front man, Arthur Lee. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/13 "2022-02-22T06:47:09Z")
I always found 24 difficult to search because the two number format confused most search engines which needed at least 3 alphabetical characters. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/14 "2022-02-22T21:25:20Z")
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. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/15 "2022-02-23T03:55:49Z")
Related thread [Things that are tricky to Google](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272) ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/16 "2022-02-23T04:32:16Z")
Remarkably, a search for Twice brings up the k-pop girl group immediately. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/17 "2022-02-23T04:36:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/18 "2022-02-23T05:17:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/19 "2022-02-23T05:38:26Z")
> [@digs](#): > > 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). Season 2 is now _YouTube Premium_ only… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896/20 "2022-02-23T05:45:02Z")
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… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-that-is-difficult-to-google/959896.md?page=2)