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I don't watch commercial television much except for live sports events because of commercials. I don't usually pay much attention to commercials but I recently noticed one that uses Sting's Every Breath You Take. I wondered why Sting would allow it to be used for a commercial. I saw the Google shirt and just assumed Google paid him a lot of money. Then I watched it closer and saw that it's really suggesting that Google is creepy for watching people on the internet and that people should use Duck Duck Go instead.
This got me thinking about 2 things.
I never realized how creepy the song was before.
Duck Duck Go thinks that people don't know how search engines work.
Every search engine keeps track of what users enter and which of the provided links they click on and how long they stay on the site. That information allows the search engine to figure out what people were looking for so they can give each user the most used links. Google is the best search engine because it is used the most and therefore has more data to use to give people the sites most relevant to the search. Sites that don't collect as much data are less likely to get you to what you are searching for. I know when Windows 10 switched my search engine to Edge, I couldn't find the sites by typing what I normally did in the search.
On the smaller search engines, it becomes easier for someone to set up a bot that types in a search then clicks on an obscure website and does that thousands or millions of times so it brings that site higher in the order of results.
Now on to how creepy the song is. It never really struck me before. It just seemed like a light hearted love song, I guess mostly from the music. If you really examine it, the lyrics but the lyrics are about a stalker which kind of surprised me because I knew all of the Lyrics from the time the song was first on the charts in 1983. I started to wonder why I hadn't noticed this before. I wondered if Sting was thinking of a stalker when he wrote it and if it had inspired any stalkers. I Googled it and I found this article that Sting didn't realize it was a creepy song when he wrote it.
In another article he says
I don't feel so bad about not really examining the lyrics when the man who wrote them didn't notice either. Once you classify a song in your mind, it tends to stay in that classification.
What are your thoughts on search engines or the song?
Maybe he thought that the commercial was a good way of showing those lyrics.
This got me thinking about 2 things.
I never realized how creepy the song was before.
Duck Duck Go thinks that people don't know how search engines work.
Every search engine keeps track of what users enter and which of the provided links they click on and how long they stay on the site. That information allows the search engine to figure out what people were looking for so they can give each user the most used links. Google is the best search engine because it is used the most and therefore has more data to use to give people the sites most relevant to the search. Sites that don't collect as much data are less likely to get you to what you are searching for. I know when Windows 10 switched my search engine to Edge, I couldn't find the sites by typing what I normally did in the search.
On the smaller search engines, it becomes easier for someone to set up a bot that types in a search then clicks on an obscure website and does that thousands or millions of times so it brings that site higher in the order of results.
Now on to how creepy the song is. It never really struck me before. It just seemed like a light hearted love song, I guess mostly from the music. If you really examine it, the lyrics but the lyrics are about a stalker which kind of surprised me because I knew all of the Lyrics from the time the song was first on the charts in 1983. I started to wonder why I hadn't noticed this before. I wondered if Sting was thinking of a stalker when he wrote it and if it had inspired any stalkers. I Googled it and I found this article that Sting didn't realize it was a creepy song when he wrote it.
In another article he says
https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-song-every-breath-you-take-by-sting/
I don't feel so bad about not really examining the lyrics when the man who wrote them didn't notice either. Once you classify a song in your mind, it tends to stay in that classification.
What are your thoughts on search engines or the song?
Maybe he thought that the commercial was a good way of showing those lyrics.
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