vaguely

Identify a Product or Commercial You Remember

A product that's been discontinued, a commercial stuck in your memory, a thing you can picture but can't name. Describe it and Vaguely tracks it down.

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How it works

Vaguely is a search engine for things on the tip of your tongue. Instead of needing the exact title or keywords, you describe what you remember — however vague or fragmented — and Vaguely searches everywhere to identify it. It expects misremembered details: the wrong decade, mixed-up facts, a half-remembered name. It searches around the parts you got wrong to find what's right.

Try describing it like this

You don't need to be precise. Pick the Product or Ad category, type what you remember, and let Vaguely do the rest.

Recently identified

Real things people described and found with Vaguely:

• A tv ad in the 70s for a breakfast cereal. A cartoon magician waves a magic wand and says “it’s a cookie jar”. → 80's Ads: Cookie Crisp Cereal with Jarvis the Wizard
• An ice cream product from the early 90's that looked like a log and had layers of vanilla icecream and chocolate crackle. I think it started with a V → Good Humor Viennetta Vanilla Ice Cream Cake (21.9 fl oz)