that's how google photos used to work years ago when I started using it to (pretty much exclusively) save memes in it, and it used to be that if I remembered the wording or what I had described it as, I would find it pretty easily

but now even if I know exactly how it's worded, especially if the caption includes a swear word or something google has decided is naughty somehow, it's really hard to pull it up

I save meme images in a private discord channel, and search by adding text comments

sits in here since I also lament how much Google photos went downhill when it was my favorite way before LOL

Find by service | CHATONS maybe one of these?

A Chevereto install should do that

I actually ended up deciding to use DigiKam! the only thing is I have to figure out how to back everything up. I don't have an external drive

also... I'm going to have to go through all my photos (both memes and personal) and re-caption them... which will take a while