# Things that are tricky to Google **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272 "2018-11-10T00:24:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/21 "2018-11-12T00:45:26Z")
One of my favourite bands is called Stars, and since it’s a common word, it can be a bit hard to find out information on them sometimes unless I look up “stars band” or something similar. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/22 "2018-11-12T02:35:23Z")
A while back I started learning Tunisian crochet, and went looking for some double-ended crochet hooks. I got quite the unexpected education. :eek: 😕 :eek: ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/23 "2018-11-12T02:44:27Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > . . . surveys, and numerous directories from before 1880 to 1920, although not all of those. And I haven’t found a single listing that didn’t say the address was simply “Palms”. Because that is the address. It was likely a primary landmark, and the address would have simply been “The Palms, CityName, State.” I have cousins whose address today is “The Clock, CityName, Ireland.” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/24 "2018-11-12T03:07:50Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I once wanted to find the website for the White House. > > Remember to attach **.gov** and not **.com** The latter goes to a porn site. I remember it used to be decked out in red, white, and blue, and had links to things like “First Ladies of Lust” > > While researching background info for a British Naval story, set in the early 19th century, I had reason to look up info on punishment details. Got some interesting results when I entered terms like “flogging”, discipline", and “British navy” I thought it was a comedy site? Or maybe that was some other WhiteHouse DOT. My uncle did a similiar thing though, the very first time he used the internet. He wanted to go to the website for Dick’s Sporting Goods. Well, he typed in [Dicks.Com](http://Dicks.Com). Nowadays, Dicks has that domain, but they didn’t back then. You can imagine what he found. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/25 "2018-11-12T04:17:32Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Because that is the address. It was likely a primary landmark, and the address would have simply been “The Palms, CityName, State.” > > I have cousins whose address today is “The Clock, CityName, Ireland.” “The Palms” was the city name, all by itself; but this was a decade or two before it was annexed by Los Angeles in 1916. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/26 "2018-11-12T04:44:39Z")
My own name. There are probably tens of thousands of people with the same first and last name out there. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/27 "2018-11-12T04:45:07Z")
I had a friend from my youth who wasn’t named “John Smith,” but had a similarly common first & last name. I have no idea where he is now, and Google isn’t going to help me. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/28 "2018-11-12T09:12:11Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I thought it was a comedy site? Or maybe that was some other WhiteHouse DOT. > … The parody site is [https://whitehouse.org/](https://whitehouse.org/) which still exists and is still a parody site. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/29 "2018-11-12T13:02:25Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Not Google but I’ve encountered a similar problem on Board Game Geek. They have a searchable database of pretty much every board game that’s ever been published. But I had a hard time finding information on a recently published game titled The Game. On the plus side, it’s the only time hearing someone say “I just lost The Game!” is anything but tiresome. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/30 "2018-11-12T13:07:13Z")
There are cheap cigarette lighters that I buy at the local pharmacy that I love. They work way better than other cheap lighters. The brand name is Vintage. I haven’t been able to find these online or even on Amazon. I just get pages and pages of antique lighters. Changing the search to Vintage brand doesn’t help either. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/31 "2018-11-12T14:20:48Z")
Not Google, but I do the supply ordering for my office, and we use Staples for our office supplies. I had to order staples, and typed “staples” into Staples’ product search and, well, yeah. (This was a few years ago, and they’ve since improved their search algorithms and result displays so you can actually search for and find staples.) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/32 "2018-11-12T19:41:24Z")
I thought for sure that it would be difficult to Google any information about the band Live (famous in the 1990s for songs like “Lightning Crashes.”) After all, every bar and concert venue in the world likes to advertise that they have a live band performing next weekend. However, I just Googled “live band,” and almost all the results on the front page are about the band in question. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/33 "2018-11-12T20:23:54Z")
I’ve always wondered what Microsoft was thinking when they named their developer platform .NET ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/34 "2018-11-12T20:35:39Z")
Usually when you’re looking for bands or songs, it might help to use Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/35 "2018-11-13T15:45:36Z")
This isn’t an impossible search, but it taught me something. I like bike racing. Yeah, I know a lot of people don’t, but bear with me. A few years ago, Mark Cavendish won a stage of the Tour of Turkey; and for his efforts he was presented, on the podium, with a colossal bunch of bananas. I mean, _colossal_. The look on his face was priceless - a clip you would want to share with friends. So I googled \. For those who don’t know - and I didn’t - the standard banana that you get at your local store is a Cavendish ([Cavendish banana - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana)). I was very confused by the search results. BTW - here’s the clip: [Cavendish'e TUR2014 İlk Etap Zaferinde Kilosuna Muz Ödülü - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjV64yi92Us) j ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/36 "2018-11-13T15:57:15Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > I’ve heard that authors today have to put a bit of thought into book titles to avoid creating something that would be hard to Google - anyone have any experience with that? The band Chvrches (pronounced ‘Churches’) spelled it with the v so they wouldn’t be lost in Google. Obviously, searching for “Churches” or even “Churches band”/“Churches music” won’t get you very far. ---
**Author:** ![JB99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/37 "2018-11-13T16:01:47Z")
At one point I needed a picture of black bears involved in mating. So I typed in ‘Bears Having Sex.’ I learned something new about gay culture. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/38 "2018-11-13T16:45:35Z")
Tangentially related. The band Ultravox had a song on their last album called “Live”. (Originally it was called “Live Again” but there you go.) Anyway, I wanted to see if anyone recorded a live version of “Live” and put it on youtube. Hilarity ensues. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272/39 "2018-11-14T07:23:36Z")
I used to live in a small city called Oakley. I had to add -sunglasses and/or add the zip code to searches when looking for anything local. Except for that one time that I really was looking for eyeglasses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272.md?page=1)