Every search helps - sometimes only indirectly.

A web search, using one of the major search engines, does not go out "on the web," and look at all possible sites to try to find something.

The search services have their "bots" and "crawlers" that go out and look for things someone might want to find. They then make up indices that they keep on their own site(s).

Our searches only look at the "service indices" to see if they know where something is. If noone ever looked for it before, they probably don't have it in their index.

If a few people look for something, sometimes they'll add it to the things that their "bots" look for, and it may come back and be put in their index.

Then if we look again, it's there!!!

Album titles are pretty well indexed, at least for recent stuff and for "historically important" titles. Song titles, especially for recent stuff, are a little less likely to be in the site's list. A few "first lines" get in with fair regularity, but anything buried "inside" an album or in a song is not likely to be found with a "search engine."

A site that actually has lyrics posted sometimes can be searched, but usually only a "page" at a time. (A very few sites let you do "full text site searches.") Unless you're pretty sure that the site has what you're looking for, it can take a lot of time "flipping pages" to find something.

The only thing easy to find is frustration. But it feels so good when you stop!

John