November/December 2009 Google Searches
Once again I post some of the search terms people used and what they got to list some interesting search terms and to see how google works.
Bullseye
santa monica trapeze school - this was an image search that got to a post on the Santa Monica pier with a photo of the trapeze school.
rockin dentist - I actually have a post called 'Rockin Dentist'. I got scheduled once with another dentist in my dentist's office and it turned out he has a second amateur career as a rock guitarist.
how do you get prickly pears outta your skin - I had the answer to that at the bottom of a post on eating prickly pear. (Duct tape)
unfuck the world, the song - This got to an audio clip of the song from Kathryn Blume's play Boycott when she performed it here in Anchorage. But the most interesting part of this was that the computer seeking this came from the World Bank. Does this mean they finally have defined the problem they're working on?
black members of congress - I take a certain amount of pleasure when someone at
the ISP "Information Systems, U.S. House of Representatives" comes to a blog in Alaska to get information about Congress.
fruit flies fungus gnats difference - Got to Tiny Black Bugs - Fruit Fly or Fungus Gnat? The visitor, from Boston, probably had fruit flies, because the outclick was to the Oklahoma State University page on fruit flies, not the Colorado link on fungus gnats.
pantalla en negro snow leopard - Ah, even in Spanish they get to snow leopard black screen disease.
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picture of seven mangoes - This image search got a picture labeled "six mangoes in plastic."
famous people who was born in pansilvania that start with the letter c - First, I need to say this person was from Pennsylvania. Google did manage to get him to the post on famous people born in 1909, and two - David Riesman and Joseph L. Mankiewicz - were born in Pennsylvania, but as you can see there was only one c between them and it wasn't at the beginning.
difference between a clique and a colloquialism - Never thought about a connection between those two words, but I can see how this Dutch searcher might have. Unfortuantely, I don't have anything on that and google sent him to Difference between a Cyclone and a Hurricane. (I probably jumped to the wrong conclusion on the nationality. It was from Holland, but Schiphol, which is the Amsterdam airport and the computer uses US English.)
a yellow egg with a tan spot. the moment you look away from it, it moves to another space - got to a picture of a yellow egg I did in photo shop in class last year..
Not even close.
2.employee bloggers sometimes use pseudonyms. under what conditions might the blogging service be forced to provide the real identity of the blogger? - This one got to a post that at least touches the issues here, The Right to Privacy, Bloggers and Privacy. This post discusses privacy in general and specifically the outing of Alaska's most read blogger at Mudflats. It doesn't quite get into the question sought though.
gender butterfly abdomen - When I stopped to think about it, it seemed to be about how to tell the gender of a butterfly. If it was, it got a pretty picture of a white butterfly with brown markings in the foothills in Northern Thailand, but nothing on determining gender. This one got me wondering. If you're interested, Clay shows how to identify a Monarch's gender when it's still a chrysalis. Dragonfly power gives a more thorough explanation. Scroll down to Part 1.
do flies know when they're full - Interesting query. I'm not even sure where this one landed. I certainly didn't have the answer.
do humans live in alaska - This one came from a computer that is set for Arabic from Jordan. So at least we can say some people in that part of the world are as ignorant of us as we are of them. Google sent them to the post "To Live and Die in Wales Alaska" He did get the answer, that yes we do.
do hipsters go skiing - I wrote about the movie Hipsters and I mention skiing now and then in my posts, but there's nothing that answers the question. Google took them to a post on the Russian movie Hipsters that won the Anchorage International Film Festival Best Feature.
Missed the target even.
if you don't know when you were born how old are you - This is a legitimate question. Got to famous people born in 1909.
how to get lover out of house - got them to "cat lovers should check out this house"
racket tailed drongo sound clip - There actually is video with a racket tailed drongo calling, but Google took this person to a post in the same month on Burma and bio fuels policy. If the searcher had been persistent, he might have followed my search instructions in the upper right hand corner. If he had searched for the word drongo on that page he would have found the link to the post with what he was after. But the Sitemeter data suggests that he didn't get to it. He was so close to exactly what he wanted, but Google should have put him on the right page.
how much does it cost to get into amber in nature the mueseum in warsaw??tell me now!!! i need this for homework!!! - Despite the fact that my blog can't even come close to answering the question, What Do I Know came up first out of 1340 hits. Why? Because google uses robots, not people to find the hits. They found a page with enough posts to match six of the words in his search command. (It does sound like some bratty kid doesn't it?) But there are no two words together even. If mine was the number 1 hit, can you imagine how useless the others were? And if there were some that got him to the museum in warsaw, why was mine number 1? Does google think it's better to give lots of wrong answers than to say, "Sorry, we can't find anything useful"? Here's the google link he found:
Google Sense of Humor
politicians laughing - This image search got to a picture of a white crested laughing thrush. Why not? Unfortunately, it wasn't even a good picture.
Bullseye
santa monica trapeze school - this was an image search that got to a post on the Santa Monica pier with a photo of the trapeze school.
rockin dentist - I actually have a post called 'Rockin Dentist'. I got scheduled once with another dentist in my dentist's office and it turned out he has a second amateur career as a rock guitarist.
how do you get prickly pears outta your skin - I had the answer to that at the bottom of a post on eating prickly pear. (Duct tape)
unfuck the world, the song - This got to an audio clip of the song from Kathryn Blume's play Boycott when she performed it here in Anchorage. But the most interesting part of this was that the computer seeking this came from the World Bank. Does this mean they finally have defined the problem they're working on?
black members of congress - I take a certain amount of pleasure when someone at
the ISP "Information Systems, U.S. House of Representatives" comes to a blog in Alaska to get information about Congress.
fruit flies fungus gnats difference - Got to Tiny Black Bugs - Fruit Fly or Fungus Gnat? The visitor, from Boston, probably had fruit flies, because the outclick was to the Oklahoma State University page on fruit flies, not the Colorado link on fungus gnats.
pantalla en negro snow leopard - Ah, even in Spanish they get to snow leopard black screen disease.
picture of seven mangoes - This image search got a picture labeled "six mangoes in plastic."
famous people who was born in pansilvania that start with the letter c - First, I need to say this person was from Pennsylvania. Google did manage to get him to the post on famous people born in 1909, and two - David Riesman and Joseph L. Mankiewicz - were born in Pennsylvania, but as you can see there was only one c between them and it wasn't at the beginning.
difference between a clique and a colloquialism - Never thought about a connection between those two words, but I can see how this Dutch searcher might have. Unfortuantely, I don't have anything on that and google sent him to Difference between a Cyclone and a Hurricane. (I probably jumped to the wrong conclusion on the nationality. It was from Holland, but Schiphol, which is the Amsterdam airport and the computer uses US English.)
a yellow egg with a tan spot. the moment you look away from it, it moves to another space - got to a picture of a yellow egg I did in photo shop in class last year..
2.employee bloggers sometimes use pseudonyms. under what conditions might the blogging service be forced to provide the real identity of the blogger? - This one got to a post that at least touches the issues here, The Right to Privacy, Bloggers and Privacy. This post discusses privacy in general and specifically the outing of Alaska's most read blogger at Mudflats. It doesn't quite get into the question sought though.
gender butterfly abdomen - When I stopped to think about it, it seemed to be about how to tell the gender of a butterfly. If it was, it got a pretty picture of a white butterfly with brown markings in the foothills in Northern Thailand, but nothing on determining gender. This one got me wondering. If you're interested, Clay shows how to identify a Monarch's gender when it's still a chrysalis. Dragonfly power gives a more thorough explanation. Scroll down to Part 1.
do flies know when they're full - Interesting query. I'm not even sure where this one landed. I certainly didn't have the answer.
do humans live in alaska - This one came from a computer that is set for Arabic from Jordan. So at least we can say some people in that part of the world are as ignorant of us as we are of them. Google sent them to the post "To Live and Die in Wales Alaska" He did get the answer, that yes we do.
do hipsters go skiing - I wrote about the movie Hipsters and I mention skiing now and then in my posts, but there's nothing that answers the question. Google took them to a post on the Russian movie Hipsters that won the Anchorage International Film Festival Best Feature.
if you don't know when you were born how old are you - This is a legitimate question. Got to famous people born in 1909.
how to get lover out of house - got them to "cat lovers should check out this house"
racket tailed drongo sound clip - There actually is video with a racket tailed drongo calling, but Google took this person to a post in the same month on Burma and bio fuels policy. If the searcher had been persistent, he might have followed my search instructions in the upper right hand corner. If he had searched for the word drongo on that page he would have found the link to the post with what he was after. But the Sitemeter data suggests that he didn't get to it. He was so close to exactly what he wanted, but Google should have put him on the right page.
how much does it cost to get into amber in nature the mueseum in warsaw??tell me now!!! i need this for homework!!! - Despite the fact that my blog can't even come close to answering the question, What Do I Know came up first out of 1340 hits. Why? Because google uses robots, not people to find the hits. They found a page with enough posts to match six of the words in his search command. (It does sound like some bratty kid doesn't it?) But there are no two words together even. If mine was the number 1 hit, can you imagine how useless the others were? And if there were some that got him to the museum in warsaw, why was mine number 1? Does google think it's better to give lots of wrong answers than to say, "Sorry, we can't find anything useful"? Here's the google link he found:
What Do I know?: July 2009
You can get the whole letter at the Warsaw Gazette.] ...... There's so much to tell...... I don't need to do my homework, the college guys like me just the way I am. ...... Seward Highway that is now a bike trail to Girdwood, I found this nature lesson - on cottonwoods. ...
whatdoino-steve.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html - Cached -
politicians laughing - This image search got to a picture of a white crested laughing thrush. Why not? Unfortunately, it wasn't even a good picture.
