Friday, September 28, 2007

Trying to reach you

My domain hosts track a whole bunch of interesting stats. For example, Googlebot (the program that creates the Google search index) has visited my blog 5187 times this year. Roughly 0.6% of visitors have been using a Mac, etc.

However, by far the most interesting and amusing stat is that of "Search Keyphrases". Stuff someone has typed into a search engine and ended up at my blog as a result.

Winning the 2007 list by some margin is "they're coming to take me away" with 23 hits. That's slightly worrisome is it not? Maybe apt, but also worrisome. There are 17 other hits with variations on this phrase.

Other amusing phrases that have ended up here (Don't ask how, but no doubt repeating them here will draw more people with crazy searches to my blog) are

"magazine for the black men" err.. what?
"female bbc newscasters" I don't know.. I don't want to know.. but some people on the internet have strange fetishes.
"what does ig stand for in google ig" It's "iGoogle" folks.
"rgldm" Eh what? But there's a whole 7 hits for this, maybe it's a special language involving no consonants?

Might be fun to seed by blog with random bizarre phrases and see how long they take to turn up in the search stats. If Googlebot visits me around 20 times a day (considerably more than any other single entity), anything I write will soon appear in the catalogue of all human knowledge that is GoogleSearch.

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Blogger Tsuki said...

tempting to put general randomness in the comments to get more scary visitors.
What's with the BBC newsreaders though? what have you been blogging?

4:37 PM  

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