Saturday, April 19, 2003

The Search Is On Every once in awhile I check to see what people searched for through someplace like Google or Yahoo to find this website.  More often than not it is my name, though I'll never know if they were looking for me or that other Alex Mauldin.  For several weeks people were finding me while trying to find Avril Lavigne.  Must have been those loving articles I wrote.  And recently it has been folks searching for Paul Stojanovich.  Right after he died, I got lots of hits.  Then this past week my site was swamped for a couple of days from Paul Stojanovich searches, all from MSN.  I have no idea why they came all the sudden.  Guess he reappeared in the news early this week somehow from the grave. But sometimes the searches that lead to this website are very odd.  Today for instance, someone came here after searching for "websites for finding autographs..."  It got cut-off there, so I'm not sure whose signature they wanted.  More likely Paul Stojanovich or Avril Lavigne's than mine (which is for sale at a very reasonable price, I might add).  Someone else was looking for "grape nuts robot."  Every once in awhile someone finds me looking for various configurations, flavors, or species of porn.  Not that I've ever had any porn on this site, but somehow Google or Yahoo spits me out for some of those searches.  Why the same doesn't hold true for queries for "super hot stud" is beyond me. Speaking of major search engines, you can get a glimpse at what the rest of the world is looking for by looking over the indexes of top search items.  Here are a few: Yahoo Buzz Index Ask Jeeves Interesting Queries Google Zeitgeist Lycos 50 The entries really speak volumes for the state of our world.  Even at times of war, nothing is going to stop the search for the perfect prom dress.  Or 50 Cent lyrics.  And nice to see coffin birth quickly climbing the charts.  Strangely, nothing says Easter quite like that.  The moral of this story is:  search for whatever you want, but keep in mind someone is always watching what you're looking for. 1:52:51 PM     |

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