Had a couple of good ones lately:
As always, there’s La Dolce Vida, relatively few rutabagas, and one polkacide.
I keep telling myself that I’m not going to do this anymore, but I just can’t help it. It’s just strange what people search for, and when those strange searches lead here, well, I have to tell you about it. Sitemeter took a powder the last couple of days- we’ll never know who the true visitor 1000 was – but what it has collected is pure esoteric Web arcana!
There were others even less interesting than those. Also, “jerry for president”, “I want to go to the moon”, and things like that, but they have been forever lost in the sitemeter abyss. I left out some squirrel-related search hits, and there was an “elevator ocelot rutabaga” hit but I wasn’t sure if I had already reported it last time. It’s good to know, however, that people are still concerned about classic movies and the important trends shaping our world today.
If only anyone else cared about this as much as I.
I’ll start with an aside. Last week was the heyday of the blog, the pinnacle of blogular traffic. The reason is simple: I started getting listed at dodmac.info, and all the regulars had to check me out. Now they’ve bitten on a coupe of lurid headlines and they know better. They have passed back into their little worlds where there is no time for discussions about which comic book heroes are best-suited for playing tag with eagles. Their loss, I say. If they don’t have the backbone to stand up on the issues that mean the most today, I have no time for their sorry asses.
Which leads me to another aside… uh, that’s going to have to be another entry. At this rate we’ll never get to to the search hits.
I think the moral of the story is, if you write enough stuff, it’s going to match what someone is looking for. If you give it a catchy title, they’ll bite like large-mouth bass when the flies have all gone home for the holidays.
I’m sure this is far more interesting to me than to anyone else, but here are some of the searches that lead people here today (it was a big google gay):
What is it with people and squirrels?
By the way, I think I’ve run out of antisquirrels. Can I get more at the dealership?
Over the last couple of days there have been several search-engine-related hits, notably:
Google: indulgence hunky jesus contest pictures
aol: half baked idea
Google: squirrel guts
Google: Polkaholics
Lots of interesting things come up when you search on squirrel guts.
Just thought you might like to know.
Exciting Addendum!
This morning, got a second hit from a search on “squirrel guts”. This from a completely different domain. As a service to those who arrived at this entry because you were looking for squirrel guts, what you really want is Suicide Squirrel Death Cult.
As of this morning, I am at the top of the Google search for “elevator ocelot rutabaga”. It took somewhere between 3 and 4 days for Google to record that entry.
Just thought you might like to know.
Searching on just the word rutabaga didn’t bring up my blog anywhere near the top, but it did bring up this. Let’s hear it for National Rutabaga Month!
Feel free to look around, leave a comment, or whatever. Leave your mark – who knows, it may be worth something someday.
Searches for the last couple of days have included:
“Half Baked Ideas” (came up 10th) was used twice today from two different ip addresses
“build motorcycle contest” (came up 2nd)
“iblog hit meter” (came in first!)
“La Dolce Vida” (came in first in an aol search) has been used more than once
“la dolce vida” (also came in first on Google)
“tomash czech” (came in fifth)
and it goes on. Misspelling vita certainly helped my rankings among similarly impaired searchers. Now, of course, since I have used all the key words again, google will send even more people here that really have no interest in what I have to say. I think variety is the key. If you put in enough unrelated topics, you’ll get some odd matches. And who knows? Maybe out there is someone who is really interested in building a hotel on the moon or a robot race vehicle.
In closing, I would just like to say, “elevator ocelot rutabaga”.
Exciting Addendum!
After talking about google so much, I did a search on the word “Google” and found this. Somebody’s stealing my ideas over there.
