Google wins again. It is quite common for people to land on any blog via some strange or unlikely search term. As such, I don’t often share them (although you can see them all for yourself if you want by looking at my Sitemeter stats). But I was surprised to find out that I am on page 1 on a Google search for “Mark Oaten rent boys”. Even weirder than that, the guilty page is the Scotland category.
Update: He’s not the Messiah: “mark oaten is a naughty boy”.
MatGB
22 January 2006 00:59
#1
Part of the fun for me with blogging is watching people, in this case user behaviour; I keep my statcounter page open most of the time, it’s just weird watching the strange ones. Someone googles, and comes to the same result 6 or more times, or, in this case, searches the web, not the news.
I know most people don’t get it, but, still, Google doesn’t scan pages that quickly for the main engine, I learnt that as I learnt how to use PCs.
The number of hits I get for Little Britain quotes and similar, maybe I ought to research a links page just for them…
doctorvee
22 January 2006 01:07
#2
You’re right about people using Google web search for news. Google is only really useful if you want to look something up, like biographical information or something like that.
I don’t really understand why people still use the main search for news (just another one of the web’s great mysteries). There is a ‘News’ tab right there on the main page, and the results page!
Sarah
22 January 2006 21:02
#3
I’m more impressed that your stats show you to be the fourth result for “Dan Corbett”!
doctorvee
22 January 2006 21:19
#4
Hah, I didn’t know that (though I knew I must have been high)! That’s awesome; Dan Corbett is the man. Of weather. Man.