Year End Search Stats

Posted December 22nd, 2001 and filed under media.

With more than 150 million queries per day, Google offers a unique window into what is happening in the world on any given day, as well as a fascinating retrospective on the peaks and valleys of popular culture. It was cool to see that the Beatles ranked #1 in the Most Searched Music Groups this… Read more »

Getting There

Posted December 6th, 2001 and filed under Web Design.

There is now an excellent article at The BradLands which very nicely explains how a reader might have gotten there. TheBrad proves, once again, that he is a usability genius.

Spam URL

Posted December 5th, 2001 and filed under comedy.

From the Spam from Places with Incredibly Long Domain Names Dept.: www.searchengineplacementexperts.com!

Referrals

Posted October 18th, 2001 and filed under comedy.

I’m happy to report that five separate individuals searching the web found my web site using the search phrase “Tennessee football sucks“.

Disturbing Search Requests

Posted October 8th, 2001 and filed under blogging, comedy.

Most of the people that visit my website come here because they know me. Usually it’s a friend or family member who has discovered my little corner of the internet, but sometimes a complete stranger will click on a link to me from somewhere else and start reading. Often someone will go to a search… Read more »

DSR

Posted October 8th, 2001 and filed under blogging.

I added a few new items to my collection of personal disturbing search requests. I guess I can understand why Yahoo! or Google! would send searchers to davidgagne.net for dave gagne custom ice. That makes sense. I’m sure I must have used the words custom and ice at some point in the last two years…. Read more »

Ribbit

Posted September 25th, 2001 and filed under blogging.

People keep searching this site for the word frog. I don’t know why. If you come here looking for frogs, please leave a note and tell me what you hoped to find. My mind wobbles.

Search Me

Posted May 21st, 2001 and filed under blogging.

Really. Because I just can’t help myself. Here are a few more search strings that have led people to my site: shaved my head mousepad x rated sex earnest hemingway’s novels the old man and the sea santiago christ descartes response to dreaming argument the swamp and big two hearted river emotocons the snows of… Read more »

bling bling

Posted May 18th, 2001 and filed under blogging.

My blog was / is named bling. It just popped into my head one day about a year or so ago. It’s short for “rambling”. It’s also the route by which most of my visitors seem to find me. Why all these lost souls are searching the internet for “bling” escapes me. Why so many… Read more »

Disturbing Search Requests

Posted March 14th, 2001 and filed under technology.

Disturbing Search Requests is quickly becoming my #1 favorite site on the ‘net. It took me a year, but I finally added search capabilities and a counter to this site. In addition to the person looking for a “free superfrog download”, people have also found davidgagne.net by searching on: “days of thunder” female, “toothless” “fetish”,… Read more »

Freaky

Posted March 13th, 2001 and filed under blogging.

Okay. So it’s not freaky enough to submit it to Disturbing Search Requests, but I certainly can’t imagine why a) someone would be looking for “free superfrog download” or 2) why Yahoo! would think to send that person here to find it …

Hemingway Search

Posted July 17th, 2000 and filed under Hemingway, rants.

Every single week I am flabbergasted by the number of people who go to my entire web site dedicated to Ernest Hemingway and do a search for hemingway. Good grief, people! It’s a Hemingway web site! Every damn page mentions his name 50 times! The only thing that is worse is when people search for… Read more »