Top 10: Hardest Bands to Google

I can guarantee you that if you're reading this right now you have probably tried to Google yourself just to see what would show up. How long does it take to find yourself? Personally, it takes me forever wadding through thousands of pages filled with link to the actor that shares my name. But as annoying as that is it's even worse when I have to work at finding a band through a web search. These days band names can be super easy to find, when bands string together nonsense words to form their name it makes it so easy for us to find their MySpace and listen to their music. But some bands don't get this. They choose to name themselves after common objects or places that we need to search for way more often then we do their three song demo. And of course some bands make it almost impossible to find themselves and these are the 10 biggest culprits of that.

10. Earth; Looking for the band Earth amongst all the links for our home planet is like looking for a boat in one of its oceans, nearly impossible without some other information. If you throw in an album title or something like that it won't be too big of a problem, and of course the metal kids have adored the band for long enough that they're aren't too obscure. Still, it's pretty tough to find.
Earth - "Omens and Portents I: The Driver"

9. Television; Without making this specifically a band search it will take you forever to sort through all the other results for television. Apparently people real like TV and the shows on it and have devoted a huge portion of the world wide web to it. Of course without TV my own name would be a lot easier to Google as well. Sigh.
Television - "Friction"

8. Iran; It seems a lot of the news these days is devoted to what's going on over in Iran. Are they proliferating nuclear devices? Will the U.S. attack them? What's the best golf course in Iran? All that news makes it pretty tough to find this TV on the Radio side project and the music they're making. Too bad since they kick a ton of ass.
Iran - "Buddy"

7. Health; The web has long been a great place to search for whatever ails you. Maybe you're looking for a new doctor or wondering about some type of workout regiment whatever it is it pushes these L.A. hipsters to the back of the Google results. Even harder is to search for the results on how Health could affect your health.
Health - "Crimewave"

6. Suicide; Searching "suicide" on Google will provide a lot of places to turn in time of crisis but it will not immediately yield a crazed New York duo that makes some insane music. I guess that's kind of good seeing as folks on the verge of offing themselves would probably be quicker to pull the trigger if they were suddenly bombarded by Suicide's tunes.
Suicide - "Cheree"

5. Women; If you're looking for a women on the internet you have a good shot at landing on a porn site or any number of match making websites, but landing on the Canadian group of men proves to be a lot tougher. The band obviously didn't put much thought into how hard it would be to find them, but they are a lot easier to find if you put in Canadian Women. Odd.
Women - "Black Rice"

4. Girls; Think finding women is hard? You should try searching for some girls! It looks like girls are even more ubiquitous then women ever could be. Too bad for this new-ish band who are just starting to get their name out there.
Girls - "Hellhole Ratrace"

3. Love; There is a lot of love in the world, and a Google search for it can wind up in millions of different places. But if you're looking for the band behind one of the greatest albums ever (Forever Changes) it will take pages and pages of searching - unless you add in that album title of course.
Love - "A House Is Not A Motel"

2. +/-; Type in +/- as is and you will get no results. They'll ask you for words, because apparently Google isn't smart enough to search for symbols. Typing in the words plus/minus yields pretty quick results but that's not really the band's name is it.
+/- - "Snowblind"

1. !!!; Like +/-, Google won't be able to find the three exclamation marks in a row because they don't do the symbol thing. Typing in exclamation point or mark doesn't get you any closer to your goal. You'd have to know that the band pronounces it each exclamation point as chk to actually find this band, and then you'd be best to string three chk's together. Which makes them almost impossible to search for so once you find it bookmark it!
!!! - "Heart of Hearts"