What Do People Search For?

While searching for some other information this evening, I took a little side trip and looked at some of the actual search terms that people have used in search engines to get to the site.  Some were just too good to not share, and so I present to you (in no particular order):

“You were searching for WHAT?” Volume 1

[g]the worst website ever[/g]
[g]ballistics gel[/g] (or [g]ballistic gel[/g])
[g]how much is a kilogram[/g]
[g]apple vs amd[/g]
[g]how to cybersex[/g]
[g]lethargic[/g] (which is more popular than [g]chris curtis[/g]...)
[g]harry potter vibrating broom[/g]
[g]micky mouse club[/g] (note the misspelling, which is on my site, too...)
[g]very secret journals[/g]
[g]crash internet explorer[/g]

Who would have ever guessed some of those… What’s possibly even scarier is that this site appears in the first 10 Google results for all of those except for one.  Go ahead and check to see which one…

Posted Thursday January 22, 2004 in Humor by Chris Curtis

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Comments

I’m just glad to see that you’re still the #1 result when searching for “cybersex and css”. wink

By Derek Jones on January 22, 2004 at 10:05pm link

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By caesar on January 23, 2004 at 03:28am link

just typing the phrase wont do it in google… google ignores overly repeated phrases in entrys for a better search outcome.

By Greg Ferrell on January 23, 2004 at 09:47am link

how to cybergoogle.

By caesar on January 23, 2004 at 09:56am link

What’s interesting here is how often my site, on Google, is listed above/before other sites that are actually more relevant to the search.  Take the [g]how much is a kilogram[/g] search, for example.  My entry is listed first, but it certainly isn’t more useful in answering the question than some of the other results.

So, why is my site ranked so high in these?  Good coding/web page design.  Sad, isn’t it?  I list the title of my entries in the actual HTML <title> and I also mark them up as headings within the page.  The content comes first in the souce code (as opposed to, say, the sidebar), and it’s marked up semantically.  I’m getting search placements that other people would pay a lot of money to get.

See, kids, good design practices do pay off—even if you may not deserve them! :D

By Chris Curtis on January 23, 2004 at 10:08am link

whats so strange about ballistic gelatin?
used for lab testing guns.

By whyowhy on April 1, 2005 at 08:36am link

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