Friday, October 05, 2007

Google Hits and Misses

It's interesting to see how people get to this site. I've posted about this before in Blogging is Like Fishing. I'm constantly amazed by what people are looking for or that I actually show up on page 1 of their google search. Lately, people have searched for
  • Alaska Mushrooms,
  • various places we stayed in India and Thailand, including
  • "prevention taken to stop the turning of yellow over the taj mahal,"
  • several hits for 'bibidibobididoo' (I guess some one showed Cinderella somewhere),
  • "things to do on a sunny day in anchorage",
  • Dan Fagan,
  • Termination Dust.
  • Carnival Cruise line queries (usually about getting from the Anchorage Airport to the cruise.
  • people related to the Kott trial. The day after the trial Debora Stovern was searched more than anyone else.
And the other day someone googled
  • "lemon and peppers Hindu talisman."
That's when I learned that not all my pictures have stayed visible - I had a picture of such a lemon and peppers under a car parked in Goa.

But today I got a pretty creepy one and I couldn't imagine where the googler was sent on my site for this. Someone in Abijan, Cote D'Ivoire

Referring URL
http://www.google.fr...hl=fr&start=130&sa=N
Search Engine
google.fr
Search Words
2007 email contact of nazi germany director and staff
You can click on the URL to see what he got. The ones I saw would not get him contact with any nazis. Below is what he got on my website - a strange collection of posts that had one, or at most two, of the words he was looking for. You can see how random it is below. And I have no idea how Google decided to include some pages with 2007 in them and not others. I've left out most of the 2007's:


Les termes de recherche suivants ont été mis en valeur : 2007 email contact nazi germany director staff


Germany has the Goethe Institutes

Sunday, April 29, 2007



a community member on the steering committee and member of the Mayor's staff,

"There was something in the disk of his smile - a kind of mischievous exuberance, more honest and more excited than mere happiness - that pierced me to the heart. It was the work of a second, the eye contact between us.

His parents were never able to get visas out of Germany.

he talks about how the Nazis are manipulating language to effectively get the German people to support the Nazi Party, a particularly appropriate topic for those living under the Bush regime. It is a fascinating account of day-to-day life of a Jewish professor in Nazi Germany. He had converted to Christianity and was married to an 'Aryan' and had been on the front lines for Germany in WWI, all of which helped delay his being taken to the concentration camps. The first volume covers 1933-1941.

Christian, a former student of mine, and the director, writer, and an actor in the play, told me it was going to be a comedic look at the porn industry.

I wasn't able to meet any of the volunteers while we were in India in November (though I had some email contact and one good phone conversation).

2 comments:

  1. It's strange where a Google search can take undesirable people.

    Also your comments on other blogs will also be added to Google data/cache that lead them to your blog ie you have mentioned (i am working on memory here so i might be a bit out)about relatives not making it out of the concentration camps.. or country during the war.

    The way Google strings words together can be quite disconcerting data overload springs to mind.

    feel free to delete this

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  2. really short for time :( but ouch my mouth hurts from grinning emperors cloths say it like it is!!:)

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