This list was actually compiled over a longer period than my previous search engine episodes. I used something called “planning” and wrote down interesting (to me) search phrases as I encountered them. As usual, I reserve the right to use pig latin when I don’t want to change future search results.
- lots of searches about blimps – hopefully they read the comments while they’re there, or they’ll miss out on BASSCAR and ISBA.
- Mira Mesa Night life – I expect I come out high on the search because no one thought to mention “Mira Mesa” and “Night life” in the same sentence
- Several searches related to sex, of course, the ones that stand out for me were x-ray beach pictures, butt pitchers, bison ass pictures and the best of all, what is a grilled cheese when it is talked about as sex term
- bars across the western US, most frequently but not limited to Amsay’s Aceplay Akelay Ahoetay, illionmay ollarday owboycay arbay, uaulay arrylay’s and spenaay oungelay (how do you do pig latin when the sord starts with a vowel?)
- HAPPY++2TH+++BIRTHDAY++++TO++++BABY – I doubt they found what they were looking for here.
- ramblings about chicks – that, I have plenty of, another coming soonish
- how to make a lombardi trophy – who cares? Anleystay upcay is etterbay.
- various searches concerning squirrels and violence
- “gravity hill” sagan – links to my Get Poor Quick category page as a result of the reusable space vehicle episode.
- bowling balls darth vader – I’d like to hear any ideas you all might have for why someone would search on that.
- “trumpet bells” picture – linked to the coaxial trumpet episode
- sporstman who would take alcohol – that search seems to imply that there’s another kind
Of course, there were lots and lots of people looking for cooking advice. I get several people a day on that one, and this week someone finally left a note of appreciation over there. Hooray! Elevator ocelot rutabaga made a comeback, my name led someone here, as did a search on the single word “soonish”.
Well, we difinitely don’t want people missing out on BASSCAR.
Meanwhile the “Darth Vader bowling ball” sounds like something Martha Stewart would do — “Here’s how to create the perfect holiday decoration, using a bowling ball to create a Darth Vader head for your centerpiece…”
BTW, the “most recent 10 posts” list seems to have disappeared.
Ah, I see the list is back again.
The sequence of events that leads to the list appearing is pretty complex and involves not just Haloscan’s servers, but FeedSweep’s as well, and feedsweep generates a pretty large javascript that executes on your machine. It’s easy to imagine that if anything fails to display on the page, it’ll be that.