Fri 9 Oct 2009
I told myself I’d never work blue, but…
Posted by Ken Atherton under Daily Life
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This story is funny enough that I have to pass it along.
I used to occasionally visit a blog by a graduate law student who wrote about items of current interest in the law for non-lawyers like myself. Outside of the main topic of his blog, he would occasionally post lists of weird Google searches that caused hits on his blog. Some of them were very funny, and others made you wonder about the combined sanity of the human race. It has inspired me to check on the incoming searches that leads to this blog, but normally, these searches are very benign — searches for scrapbooking stuff, or about the cricket, etc.
In the last few weeks we’ve started seeing some traffic for a very strange web query. Our blog doesn’t generate very many random hits mainly because it isn’t a general interest blog. For the most part, only people who know us visit this page.
There are a few exceptions, though. Our page about making 3D snowflakes continues to be the most popular page on the site and is visited by people from around the world. More recently, some of the stereograms I have posted have drawn a few hits due to some small popularity of this type of photograph on the web.
And that’s where it starts to get weird. Back in June, I added a short article about our visit to the Leaning Tower of Pisa in 2002. In the entry, I described it as “this strange cock-eyed building” and I included a stereogram I made of the tower. This phrase turns out to be, um, meaningful to some cadre of Google users.
The search phrase they are using that leads to this blog is: ”stereogram cock.”
Our blog shows up as the number one image hit in all of Googleland for these keywords. I didn’t include a link to this search because some of the other results of this search can be — shall we say — disturbing if you don’t have Google safe search turned on.
What is really odd is that we have gotten 49 clicks on that article in the last month through someone (or someones) being directed here by Google when this phrase has been entered.
I shudder to think what they might have really been looking for – and why they wanted to see it in 3D.
On the other hand, the search does bring up this nice stereogram of a rooster.
Local Tags: 3d, blog, google, leaning tower of pisa, stereogram, stereograms
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