mamamusings: search engine surprises

Monday, 22 September 2003

search engine surprises

Every now and then, I poke around my referral logs to see what search terms are bringing users to my site. I was quite amazed to see some of the searches in Google that currently bring my site up on the first page

we have met the enemy and he is us, one of my favorite pogo quotes. Amazingly, I’m the number one link for this. Bizarre.
aim bots. I’m number two for this, which also surprises me.
extrovert introvert. Also number two, though less surprising considering the traffic that thread generated.
what a friend we have in Jesus. Number three on this, which totally cracks me up. (Comes up the same with “I” instead of “we,” as well.)

Posted at 5:30 PM in: idle thoughts

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Comment from meg on September 23, 2003 12:08 AM (Permalink to Comment)

Aren't we easily entertained. I followed each of your odd search terms.

We're still #1 for

pics to look at while on acid

Comment from Stu Savory on September 23, 2003 4:26 AM (Permalink to Comment)

Yep, Granny-meg is right, Liz, we all have our niches :-)
as a blogger, I'm still #1 according to our German Google for for "rants irregularly" :-)

I get my fair share of wierdos too. The other day I blogged a crypto article headlined "Play fair with Yvonne" (that's a pun on her decoding crack of the Playfair cipher). Now I'm getting hits from the porn-seekers looking to play with Yvonne :-(

Stu

Comment from UncleBob on September 24, 2003 4:58 PM (Permalink to Comment)

I'm just pleased to see someone recognizes the quote came from Pogo (OK, or Walt Kelly). I see it attributed to a lot of other folks from time to time.

Comment from Taylor on September 25, 2003 6:46 PM (Permalink to Comment)

Thanks for implementing the fix on Corante. It works perfectly know and is appreciated :)

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Monday, 22 September 2003

search engine surprises