I get a kick out of discovering what searches lead folks here. While I’m always
curious to see the individual Posts listing in the Stats area of my Blogger control panel, even more interesting to me than what pages of the blog are visited most is how people are landing there and why — at least as much as one can hypothesize from the how.
Very often, I have little to no idea how a given search relates to what Google turns up, like so:
{craving for a holiday experience}
The above showed up this past December, and I found then that a Google Image
search for the string would return the picture from last year’s hodgepodge dispatch on The Hulk, Evan Dorkin, and Twitter as a representative of the blog’s archive page for April 2011. It’s a mystery to me what the person(s) who input that string hoped to get, but despite their obvious curiosity over the image (since they did click on through) I doubt that they were looking for a doodle of Marvel’s jolly sullen green giant. Most folks apparently don’t know (or remember, or care) to use quotes in their Google searches when searching for a specific phrase — which I admit may not have been the case here — so, although pages where the words appear in close proximity to one another may show up higher in the search returns, a search will eventually turn to pages where the words may be scattered about in unrelated contexts.
Hello! Are you looking for this?
Photo detail © 2010 The CBS Corporation.
I’ve kinda rigged the question by providing that pic from the set of CSI, since Alex Carter’s name was the most searched-for string leading folks to Blam’s Blog last year according to Blogger’s stats analysis.
Google’s logo of the day is a weird one. I wish you luck clicking on it to find out what it represents...
There have been a few articles speculating on its meaning, but I suspect we won’t hear anything from official sources for a while yet.
