Scrolling the list of web searches that bring people to your blog is often hilarious and sometimes terrifying. Here’s my favorite from this morning…
“your dekalb farmer’s market smell blog”
I must admit that I’ve always dreamed that this would be my legacy. “Kids, when grandpa was a boy, there was a really bad smell and he decided he wasn’t going to stand for it anymore…”
At Home in Decatur
Oakhurst Girl
Marty
Judd
Luma
Sharron
J_T
J_T
DeeKay
nelliebelle1197
nelliebelle1197
Sam
Raul
Diane Loupe
Rick Julian
My blog is called “Strictly for Pleasure.” Oh the stories I could tell of ways people Googled those words together and happened upon my harmless little site. I’m sure I was a disappointment a great deal of the time.
Jenny, I can only imagine.
Early on I did a post about a talk regarding DeKalb County euthanizing cats and dogs and couldn’t believe how many people out there searched for things like “how to euthanize a cat.” Shutter.
I actually spend most of my work day collecting and sifting through hundreds of thousands of search queries; there are some truly hysterical, and at the same time depressing, searches that I see all the time.
I think the funniest search that I ever came across is “can I catch autism from an autistic hooker?” There are so many things wrong with that one, and I haven’t found one better yet.
I actually started documenting some of these crazy searches at searchoftheday.com, and I post a couple dozen a week usually.
One thing I never thought of was how crazy the search referrals to that site would be. I post some crazy search and the next thing I know I’m getting a bunch of traffic from equally deranged searchers, so now it’s actually feeding on itself, which is very strange to watch – it’s like an organism now.
“Shutter?” Were you taking a picture of it?
Incidentally, I wouldn’t feel too bad. I’m sure there are a lot of people out there with old, infirm cats who are just looking up information on what is involved in euthanizing them, more because they want to make sure their cats are put to sleep humanely rather than out of some sort of prurient interest. It’s not like people are doing it for fun and profit (and if they are, they aren’t using the term “euthanize”).