As an example, I went to the Winco site to find what they had in the way of Soda Stream flavors at my local store. I typed in “Soda Stream” on their search engine. No matter how many times I did it the words “soda steak” appeared, with only two finds: a specific brand of baking soda, and a specific brand of pepper steak seasoning. 
How has “search” totally failed you in unexpected ways?
“Sodastream” is a trademark. It’s one word. You might have done better with that search term.
I tried one in the last week that no kidding stumped Google (or was it Bing?). I got zero returns. And it was a legit query for something obscure; not a deliberately contrived stump-the-search-engine trick question. Damned if I can remember what it was though.
I tried that first and got no response at all.
More than twenty years ago, I briefly considered getting into making my own sausages. Ya know, ground pork mixed with spices, stuffed into sheep intestines, and hung out to cure. I began by doing a Google search for “sausage stuffing.” I did not get the results I was expecting. At all. I’ll leave the rest to the reader’s imagination.
I live near Boston. When I wanted to find a good restaurant for lunch, I searched Google Maps for “sandwich restaurant”. It showed me restaurants in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
I’ve wanted to try that someday so I could make them in the shapes of balloon animals.
I would have expected recipes for sausage stuffing (which is a thing) and not something prurient unless you mentioned it. And, in fact, that’s all I get when I google it, exactly what I expected.
ETA: Ah, more than twenty years ago. When search results were a little less curated ….
Funny. I googled that and got the proper results,
Funny but, as mentioned, I used the search engine provided by WinCo, for my local store.
I recall the band Cake saying they wished they had chosen a different name, because they are impossible to search for on the internet unless you specify “Cake band”. That was probably true back when they said it, but now that Google’s results have gotten more personalized it will give me results about the band, especially if I’ve searched for other music related things recently.
Maybe Winco doesn’t carry that?
Maybe, but in my experience most store’s websites will try to show you similar items if they don’t carry the specific item you searched for (because of course they would really like for you to still buy something from them rather than go somewhere else).
I guess their search algorithm is struggling to come up with anything similar to Sodastream and is deciding the OP really meant “soda steak”. Although I would have thought that it would at least have figured out that “soda” was a similar product. I guess whatever search algorithm Winco uses isn’t as smart as Google.
It’s true. You go to the website and type “soda stream” and it will say “found 2 results for soda steak”. It’s quite amusing. And as a single word, it will just say no results found without any pertinent suggestions. My assumption is that it does not carry any Sodastream products and just has a weird suggestions algorithm when there’s a hit or one of the words and then finds a near hit on the other.
In 2000 (give or take a year) I wanted to know how close two stores were to each other. They were on the same street around a mile apart. I went to Google Maps and put them in and did the driving directions thing. It would have me go to the interstate, loop around to the other side of the city, and approached the street from the other side. It was about an hour to go a mile.
Well, if you don’t know about it, why would you expect Google to be able to figure it out?
Imagine trying to look up The The.
For a while, I would Google things, and get what could best be described as adjacent results, and more recently, after I got kicked off Amazon, when I would maintain the library’s account, I would look up the rare books I wanted to list, and instead get what was basically page after page of LuLaRoe knockoff women’s shirts.
I had similar difficulties back in the day finding info about electroclash band ADULT. - the period is part of the name, but that didn’t change things.
I recall reading that typing -ai in front of a search would dsiable the annoying “AI” summery, so I randomly tried typing “-AI Dog Pound”. Let’s just say that I also have Safe Search turned off, and didn’t get quite the results expected.
(Checks) Hmm, seems to work right now at least.
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I imagine there are countless bands that are difficult to Google: Bread? Live? Yes? Train? The Band? America? Free? !!! ← Yes, that’s a band name. (Yeah, I just tried “!!! concerts” and “!!! albums” in Google and got generic concert and album results, nothing pertaining to the band. I think Google just ignores the punctuation. Their name is sometimes rendered “Chk chk chk,” so that can get you in the right place.) Meanwhile " ‘The the’ albums" works fine. “Free albums” works surprisingly well for that band.
At work, I tend to use a Linux extension called “StrokeIt” to enable mouse strokes - basically like macros for specific mouse movements. Occasionally a co-worker would see me close a window or go “back” in a web browser with a mouse stroke and ask how I did it. I always told them to search for “strokeit mouse” out of concern for what a search for “strokeit” would bring on their work computer.