Welcome to the internet, stranger. Did you mean to come here, and can I show you around?
It's both the precise and haphazard nature of google searches that get to your site that really perplex you. A person once reached my website by typing in something like this:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
Boggled, that's what my mind was, not to mention hornswoggled. If this person had typed in one more A or three less Gs, would they have been taken to a different site entirely? Did they find what they were looking for? Are they alright?
Here's what my last twenty search strings look like. Make sense of them, if you will:
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| 20 Nov, Mon, 14:39:11 | Google Images: funny cartoons about food | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 14:50:48 | Google: semaphore lady first | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 15:01:33 | Google: "beware of geeks bearing gifts" "who said?" | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 15:10:48 | Google Images: Marty Worrall | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 15:19:17 | Google: LINKA AND WHEELER | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 15:21:14 | Google Images: boo bah | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 15:24:08 | AOL Search: How to be silly with a woman | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 16:01:04 | Google: difference between oxymoron and paradox | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 16:01:41 | Google: 3A | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 16:27:35 | Google: etymology "toe rag" | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 16:30:24 | Google: John Keats – “To Autumn” clouds bloom the soft-dying day | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 16:30:57 | Google Images: butt | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 17:01:11 | Google Images: butt | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 17:05:59 | Google: meg ryan michael parkinson interview youtube | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 17:12:06 | Google Images: aragorn | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 17:13:36 | Google: Mathaletics | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 17:33:25 | Google: delta goodrem conspiracy | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 17:50:03 | Google: meals in train | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 18:18:45 | Google: mathaletics | ||
| 20 Nov, Mon, 19:15:19 | Google: what type of food did the english bring to england | ||
I can't claim to be a magnet for many pornography search strings like a few other websites (I think I have to up my quotient of sex and swear words to get that sort of thing), but my most common search is probably Google Images: Butt. This is the butt that comes up, not this butt or this butt; it's not a bad butt, just an ordinary, everyday butt.
I guess that's the internet for you: No ifs; plenty of butts.
4 comments:
Oh dear, your search / hit results are as boring as mine, you poor thing.
"difference between oxymoron and paradox" - err, a lot?
We get some really disturbing ones at Sterne. The other day we had "harry potter forced to eat snape's cock". Luckily we have a post that is about just that subject...
'Paradox' is a term for an apparent contradiction; an oxymoron is a contradiction in terms.
Well there you go, Tim. Sterne is the blog that delivers!
I may have spoken too soon. This was the google search that led to my website late last night. Rather disturbing indeed when you consider the almost one-to-one correspondence between one of the words used and my last name.
And presumably, 'paradoxymoron' = 'apparent contradiction in terms', or maybe 'contradiction in apparent terms'.
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