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 »
Posts Tagged: search
Disturbing Search Requests
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
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
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 »
FTP Search
The FTP Search is now holding at v4.0 and I thought I’d share it with anyone who doesn’t use it. I’ve been utilizing this place since at least ’95 and it has never failed me. It has gone through many incarnations, it was originally in some Nordic country if memory serves, and it has always… Read more »
Search Engine Statistics
I posted the search engine statistics for my Hemingway page. It drives me nuts when people double the letter m in the middle of his name. Something I can’t understand is why people search on the word “Hemingway” on what is very clearly an Ernest Hemingway web site. The search must return every single page… Read more »
[Newsflashes]
Blogger‘s Been Updated and Upgraded But Still No Searching Thousands of Egomaniacal Webheads Near Rioting “This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved.” “The proliferation of weekday afternoon syndicated original programming coupled with the arrival of cable TV spelled… Read more »
Search
Just for fun, this was a rather revealing search …
Hemingway
You may know, if you’ve ever let your eyes wander all the way to the upper left-hand corner of this page, that I run a pretty nifty Hemingway site. The site gets something like 800 hits daily. I’m sure a bunch of those are spiders and search thingies and who-knows-what else. But I know that… Read more »