Search strings
Posted by David on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 10:05 PM.
You may or may not know that when you get to a site by searching for it on many of the popular search engines, the search engine passes on to the site the exact search string you had entered.
I'm not actually sure why the search engines do this, but it provides for some pretty disheartening reading on my part:
The number one way people get to my site is by searching for "cute animals"?!?! Boy, are they going to be disappointed.
(That chart, by the way, is part of the logging package that comes with my totally awesome site host, Lunarpages.)
Uncle Vinny, on Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 12:35 AM:
What's *really* scary is that noise-to-signal.com isn't in the top 500 results for "cute animals" -- I know, I checked. So that means that the 252 people (per day?!) coming to your site based on this request are dissatisfied with the other 500 "cute animal" pages they visited...
Richard Beers, on Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 12:54 PM:
I like the 'light transmitting concrete' option myself... it's how I usually get here... I just never remember those URL thingys...
Andrew, on Thursday, May 13, 2004 at 8:34 AM:
Me too. I always just google for "orthodox jews" to get here. Do-it-n-doo-doo feelin luckeeeeee.
Beth, on Saturday, May 7, 2005 at 5:17 AM:
I found you by searching for "fritty plowers". I was looking for references or song lyrics to the Jim Henson 1972 made-for-TV-movie "Frog Prince". Obviously your posts have nothing to do with that, but I have found many other delicious items here instead! (I did not notice any cute animals.) Your blog rocks. Hopefully you are not plagued by the Frog Prince as I am. "N'Im Einteen, nim einteen, by mirthday's dotay..."