It would be nice if this worked, but in Google's defense, this is an odd combination of an exact search phrase of common words and then a couple categorical terms that don't have to actually appear on the page. If you help it by searching for just the quoted phrase you want without the additional terms it puts the result you want both as the top result and in a pullout at the top of the page: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22like+you+didn%27t+care+I+...

But google used to be able to handle cases like this without quotes...

Haha yeah, I was wondering when someone would suggest this. Last night, after I got the result back immediately from DuckDuckGo and Bing, I returned to Google and added quotes around the lyric itself, and it returned the right result immediately.

A simple keyword search wouldn't get so confused.

I'm going to point to this from yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185229

It's easy to judge but AFAIK if they prioritize order it's possible more searches come up with bad results than good. That doesn't mean they shouldn't try to do better but we, or a least I, really have no idea which is better, on average, order dependent or order independent.

Or if they assumed the order was meaningful, which they apparently don't.

They only hire the best of the best!

What, did you really have 'lyrics r&b' inside the double quotes? That's not part of the phrase in the lyrics (I'd guess), so your own fault then.

I wouldn't expect that "r&b" would help the query.

and DDG, first result

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=like+you+didn%27t+care+I+do...

Was it Save Your Tears by The Weeknd?

Yup! The version I was looking for was a slowed & reverb version that I later found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkXCAKgqD3M

I was able to find it with this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22like+you+didn%27t+care+I+...

Wow, same results here. That's pretty poor.

Weirdly the problem is "r&b". If you take that off you get the song immediately...