But is it asked too much to just add a short relevant phrase, like “madonna icon” or “twilight optical”? We’re not as far that AIs can read your mind (though sometimes I suspect they can).
Yeah but sometimes this won’t work. The problem isn’t finding Madonna the icon, the problem can be looking for some other Madonna and being flooded with Madonna the icon results. I wish I could think of a good example. I listen to a classic country station that plays mostly older stuff that was not in the top of the charts. Many times I try googling a song I hear (to learn the artist, for example) and I get bombarded with results of a more popular, recent song. Even if the title is slightly different. Even if I google a substantial portion of the lyrics I still will end up with some Garth Brooks search results.
I usually end up emailing the station and asking.
There’s a geography version of Wordle called Worldle. Google still refuses to direct me to it immediately despite me visiting it nearly daily - it’s clearly not a spelling mistake after a month, surely?
I have had a similar problem with another song which is actually titled “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Vince Valiant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_I_Want_for_Christmas_Is_You_(Vince_Vance_%26_The_Valiants_song)
Hoo boy, I just ended a years-long search that was complicated by the terms I was using.
When I was a kid I saw a western on TV at my grandparents’ house that scared me senseless because it was so brutal. The scene involved some guys punishing a Native American by branding him, and the victim attempts to not show any pain.
I began searching for it years ago, based only on that memory. But if you search for “western and branding” you get mostly marketing stuff. Adding “Indian” gets stuff from India. Adding “Native American” gets marketing stuff for various North American tribes. It did turn up several very disturbing videos of human branding, which is definitely not what I wanted.
So I looked through databases of movie westerns and TV series. Nothing. For years and years I periodically tried again when I was bored.
Then a few weeks ago I found a western TV / movie blog that had an entry for a 1980 mini-series called “Wild Times”, starring Sam Elliott. It actually mentioned something about a branding scene, and had a photo of Geno Silva in the role of a Native American. Best lead I’d ever had.
It took me until today to find a way to view it and… that was the one. Pretty much as I recalled from 40 years ago, although it was less graphic than I thought. My young imagination must have filled in some blanks.
Yeah, me too.
The other day, I read a short story by a fellow named “Jonathan Worlde” - bet his search engine optimization strategy has had to change lately.
(could be worse. There’s a guy whose friend the TV producer named a one-shot character in a sitcom after him, and poor Steve Erkel’s life has never been the same)
There was a duo in the 1970s that performed under the name “Windows”, most famous for performing the German version of How Do You Do? . You do better by googling “Die Windows”, though even that doesn’t weed out all the links about the operating system.