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”.
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…
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!
I’m more impressed that your stats show you to be the fourth result for “Dan Corbett”!
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.