Not much content, but damn if it’s not entertaining.
Just took a step back from the monitor to take a brief look at the last few posts… then took a step forward, scrolled down so I could see past the first one… and found myself not seeing too much happening over the last few weeks… Lotta pretty moving pictures, but not much of the lettered content.
But something recently caught my attention, and I thought I would share it with y’all.
Every once in a while, a little robot comes to visit my site. This is sent by Our-Dear-and-Glorious-Leader: ‘GOOGLE’ to gather information for its search engine. The job of the little robot is to crawl from site to site and suck every one of the words that from time to time appear on this site and sends them off to an Indexer. The Indexer chooses only the “interesting” words (if only) that could be “relevant” to each “site” and then using absurdly complicated algorithms “and” page rankings, the next time you search for ‘Goldfish Hoodies‘ you’re going to come up with something “useful”.
One other cool thing about technology, other than the ability to watch a cat playing the piano, is that when you own a site, you can install your own software that gathers information on the people who come to you. Now, my handy-dandy administrative tools don’t tell me anything really useful, other than the amount of hits each day, total, since dd/mm/yyyy. Or from which country the visitor is from (I got Egypt!!!) and what language their browser uses. And my new fav, “How They Arrived.” Sometimes they come from my sister’s blog or my friend’s Jacki’s blog (thanks guys!). But many times they come through Google.
Now, not only does this little tool tell me that they came from Google. but what they had been searching for when they found my site.
Here are some of my personal favorites:
“I stopped counting after 9″
“How to gut a closet”
“Alcohol is the greatest equalizer”
“WHAT DOES THE TERM “GRIND ON ME” MEAN?”
“Niko’s underwear”
“Ghent awful city”
and my new #1:
“Ritalin Dealer”
Oh yeah… I know a guy. How much you want?
Turns out that my friends Shazde(h) and Azadeh are often searched for on the interweb and are subsequently led here. Strange. Maybe if you left more comments with your full name attached to it, I could tell you how many people came here looking for YOU!
Till then, I’ll just wait for the Google Bot to come running through again and enjoy the wave of Goldfish Hoodie fans that’ll come streaming in.
-Peace
