However, I couldn't remember the name of the artist (Dizzee Rascal) or the name of the song (I Don't Need A Reason). However, I could remember tons of other details:
- I remembered the lyrics "eyes on me" and "all eyes on me" happening frequently throughout the song
- I remembered the Victorian themed costumes
- I remembered some of the specific looping clips such as the shotgun shooting the clay pidgeon and the house of cards falling down
- I remembered the disturbing way that people's left and right eyes would move out-of-sync
- I remembered everyone in the video was black and that the main character was not African American based on his accent.
Despite trying many, many combinations of this information for over hour, it was only via a Reddit "tip of my tongue" post that I could ultimately find the video. I was unable to find it with a search engine.
Prior to this I would have thought search engines were good enough that a query like "music video eyes on me victorian looping clip house of cards shotgun" would have surfaced this as the #1 result.
But now I can't tell if search engines have just gotten much worse or if I just haven't been keeping up with search-fu techniques. Anyone have similar experiences?
No I think search engines are still largely keyword-driven. With some synonyms and ranking thrown in.
Better search engines probably have humans curating stuff based on trending traffic, e.g. "what went down at the supreme court today?"
Just speculation though.