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Searching for a song by typing in lyrics is specifically a feature I’ve noticed Google can’t do any more. And it used to be able to.
by zeven7 2y ago
Searching for a song by typing in lyrics is specifically a feature I’ve noticed Google can’t do any more. And it used to be able to.
- space_oddity 2y agoIt works only if they're well-known lyrics or a popular track
- Pikamander2 2y agoSame here. I've generally found complaints about Google's recent decline to be overblown, but lyrics are one area where it's truly gone off the deep end. Even if I type in 2-3 lines worth of nearly-exact lyrics that show up on multiple lyrics websites, it'll give me completely unrelated songs that match several words at most. On that note, if anyone needs a good browser-based song finder, the "Aha Music Identifier" extension is pretty good. It's a life saver when watching Twitch streams that don't list the currently-playing song.
- alephxyz 2y agoNot just lyrics. Searching for quotations or text excerpts is much harder and double quotes to only get exact matches also returns unrelated results. On the other hand, chatgpt 4o-mini and 3.5 will just make up source material which is amusing but not very helpful.