Random searchosity

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by Matt Stratton on December 16, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve done a post like this, but considering that yesterday I got a flaming blog comment from an 11 year old Canadian who found my blog by Googling “are there real unicorns on earth?”, it seemed only right and proper to resurrect the concept.

Now, for your reading enjoyment, some of the Google queries that got people to my blog in the past thirty days:

Erika Buchholz – this is actually a friend of mine, and the hits are because of the super fun interview I did with her a while back. I’ve also learned from Google that there is an “Erika Buchholz” who is a real estate agent. That’s not my friend – mine’s the soprano.

ferret girl – As I commented on this blog post, a former possible romantic candidate was code-named “Ferret Girl” by me. Not because she looked like a ferret, but because she HAD ferrets.

hottest picture ever – I’ve gotten several hits from this. They all end up at this post. Unfortunately, whatever picture it was that I thought was so hot…it didn’t make it over when I migrated from LiveJournal. Sorry to disappoint you, hot-picture-seekers…

jenna fischer divorce – Another case of disappointed Googlers…this ends up taking them to a post which mostly just makes fun of Arcecat.

jobs are for losers - I get hits from this query on a weekly basis. It’s sad reflection on the work ethic of the Internet community.

unicorn gravy - There’s quite a few unicorn-related searches that lead to my blog, but this is my favorite one. I wonder if it’s good on mashed potatoes?

Scout the Sheltie – I find it kind of awesome that someone would look for this specifically – but wouldn’t already know my website. That’s an interesting Venn diagram to draw.

marrying yourself in colorado – When you couple this with the searches I get for “shana’s breasts”, a frightening (but not surprising) picture begins to emerge. And if you’re not a Yehoodite of a certain era, you won’t understand why.

Swifty wins – Yes. Yes he does. But did you have to search Google to find that out?

(Image from <<graham>> on Flickr)

  • http://youllgrowtoloveme.com jenniferalaine

    I love that you nicknamed a girl “Ferret Girl”. I hope it was meant as a compliment :)

    • http://mattstratton.com mattstratton

      Absolutely! Like I said in my comment on your post…I used to be a little ferret-obsessed. I thought it was pretty cool that she had 'em!

  • http://www.stackedblog.com/ Christina

    Unicorn gravy? That is just pure awesome.

  • http://cattails.me verybadcat

    I never really knew the extent of illegal and unsanitary practices that involve cattails before I started blogging… ;)

    • http://mattstratton.com mattstratton

      The Internet can be fascinating and disturbing all at the same time.

  • http://doniree.com doniree

    My GOD I love great keyword searches that land people on our blogs. I'm going to have to do one of these soon. Also? Isn't the Lijit search stuff AWESOME? It told me that a certain someone from a certain somewhere was trying to find my favorite brand/style of yoga pants and now I have a clue about a Christmas present :) Hehe… also!? I JUST LEARNED about the marrying yourself in Colorado thing. A girl I met while I was out there did that – she and her husband whisked away to a cabin in the mountains, got married, then came back and had a big ol' party. I thought that was SUPER romantic.

    • http://mattstratton.com mattstratton

      I've only had Lijit for about 24 hours, so we'll have to see. Loving the search though. Basically, when I switched to Thesis, all of a sudden I started having issues with WordPress search (I blame Thesis since when I switched themes back, the search worked).

      Anyway, my solution was to use a custom Google search. But their search widget was ugly as heck. And then, all of a sudden…a certain someone tweeted about Lijit…and voila. The rest is history.

      (so what's the next thing I'm going to steal from YOUR blog?)

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