A colleague of mine just told me over lunch today that he was a bit amused to see in his server log that someone found his homepage via the Google search string “submarine aerodynamics”. Now “submarine aerodynamics” is not exactly the world’s most striving research area, but as it turned out there was an airplane called “Submarine Scout” of which the aerodynamics were discussed.
Still, it can be very entertaining (and enlightening) to look at the server logs to see how people end up on your page. I was, for example, a bit stunned to realize that most of the traffic ending up at my private homepage (http://www.ingmarweber.de) actually comes through the Google query “choceur”. For some reason a short report about a chocolate party I once threw makes it to the Google top 10 search results for this query. [Oh, how my poor ego had to suffer to realize, that more people get to my homepage by pure accident than by searching for my name.]
Similarly, people have found my blog (by accident) searching for “wolfram lightbulb”, “man gotta do what a man gotta do”, “pictures of man chasing carrot” or for “You keep it going man”. Not really conclusive enough to put any meaningful ads to become rich in a month 🙂
But, who knows, maybe I’ll try out my bargaining skills and try to sell my blog as a prime spot to place carrot ads. If advertiser follow the same random patterns as people searching on Google, then this might just work.
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May 31, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Jennifer
Someone found my blog through the keyword ‘milf’. For the life of me, I can’t think why.
May 31, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Ingmar Weber
Hmm, not exactly a keyword you want to be found under…
Maybe there was a typo on your blog for some time?
Sometimes spammers also use strange techniques to get “relevant” search terms or links into your access log. I have similar things happening for my private homepage. Lots of “dubious” referrers who link to my page, click the link, and then remove it. Just so that their url shows up in my access log.
June 1, 2007 at 11:52 am
Jennifer
Wait wait, I hope that isn’t some sort of derogatory German term for a female.. something like meuff in French, or chick in English? Maybe that’s the missing link?
June 1, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Ingmar Weber
Me not understand. According to Google “milf” is a, well, “derogatory” English term for a female. Not a word at all in German.
June 1, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Jennifer
Oh.