I'm feeling not-so-lucky
Recently, a week back, I added a piece of javascript code to the blog template, to function as a "stealth mode blog patrol". I was curious to see who was visiting the blog, from where, how often and in other irrelevant surveillance related statistics.
One of the things logged by this code is the exact "search terms" (all used at Google) that lead a user to one of the entries in this blog. So, fellow (ex-)poseurs and voyeurs, here are the top four (why four? because the blog had only four hits from Google) search terms that led unsuspecting surfers to our shores.
At number 4 - Psychological Narcosis
At number 3 - "Village Schoolmaster" "Oliver Goldsmith"
( For those in the audience keeping count, that's two hits to my blog entry and zero to the rest!)
At number 2 - Konkona Koko
And the number 1 search term at Google that led users to our blog is (drum roll please) - Tushy Massage Explain!
With its current price of $180 a share, something tells me that the Google stock is soon going to be a cause for acute pain in the tushy for all its shareholders. And then of course, we'll get more hits!
ps: No, I don't have time to kill and yes, you can skip this without any loss of continuity. I just thought that there should be some tool out there to do this kind of dynamic visualization tracing user's paths as they surf the web. It decidedly serves no purpose. Even then -
The web is an ocean of information. Scattered across this ocean are websites of varying pagerank. Web sites like Google and Yahoo (with pagerank = 1) are at the center of this ocean. As you move away from the center, you find web sites of lesser pagerank. And at the very periphery are websites with zero pagerank like this blog. Google, with its whirling index server farms and search query processors is like a giant inverse-whirlpool at the very center of this ocean not sucking in but spewing out visiting surfers in all directions to distant shores they've never been to. Now, if only someone could animate this thing and link it up live to Google webservers...
posted by Prashanth Pappu @ 4:31 PM
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btw I just checked - our blog doesn't even figure in the search results for items 2 and 1. Something wrong somewhere ?
Google's index is refreshed every fortnight. So, its possible that we no longer feature in the hits for the given search terms. But rest assured, there was a surfer who searched for 'Tushy massage explain' at Google, went through the list of hits and actually followed one of the links that led him to our blog (when we recorded the above statistics).
So some creep now thinks I'm an expert on tushy massage ...
interesting.
Creep's pretty intuitive believe me. I think one of the things Space and I have in common is a dark past ... hence the pseudonyms... I'm sure Space will back me up here.
I'm not having my name tossed around willy nilly in a public forum without a fitting, articulate and irrelevant response.
Duniya mein do type ke keede hote hain and, at worst, I'm a samaaj ki gandgi se nikalne wala keeda. (Yes, no flit). But look around you, this entire blog membership is that way. Man, I don't think we'll ever win an .
To be precise, I don't think we'll ever win an .
Mother of God! To be doubly precise, I don't think we'll ever win an indi-blah award.
I know whatchu mean ... we're scumbags, all of us. Some of us are just open about it and some of us are not.
Actually I came to know that my paranoid mother (she'll freak out if she comes to know of my occasional flirtations with alcohol) has recently discovered the enormous powers of google ... and I have reason to suspect that my various monikers are no longer adequate protection. I think the CREEP is safe for now but I've been sanitizing all my previous posts just in case.
Update on the search terms that are leading users to this blog. Interestingly, the more we talk/write about these search terms, the more hits we get for the same search terms (because they now appear more times on our webpages!). The increase in the number of visitors looking for "tushy massage" has a direct correlation to the previous comments. We continue in this vein and one day you can just hit "i'm feeling lucky" for "tushy massage" and you'll end up on this page!
The stats:
tushy massage (Google) 19
desi aunty (Google) 2
manutius (Google) 1
megasexual (Google) 1
rahul bose cute (Google) 1
Salman Khan EarRing (Google) 1
shyamalan kerala name (Google) 1
the london times "simon jerkins" (Google) 1
TUSHY MASSAGE (Google) 1
zeenat aman's picture (Google) 1
indian authors blog (Google) 1
kannada songs on Mandya Ambarish (Google) 1
M.r and Mrs. Iyer-the movie (Google) 1
manoj night childhood (Google) 1
I'm still amazed at the stellar performance of tushy massage. Our blog is buried somewhere in the 7 page. It's the first non-porn site among the search result though - so the visitors are probably coming through some sanitized search engine.
Another interesting search phrase that brought a surfer to our blog -
"prom dress inspired by Hillary Swank worn at the 2005 Academy awards"
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