I’ve been remiss in posting some of the weird and wonderful searches that people use to get to this site. It’s because I moved the site from one computer to another back in March, and hadn’t installed the log-reading software until last night, when I was reading a site from a Googler whose domain name would really have people wondering about my late-night browsing habits.
She had an article on odd searches that people used to find her site, which prompted me to get the software installed, since it’s usually a form of entertainment for me, too.
Perhaps the most surprising thing is that an increasing number of the searches are actually leading to posts and pages that are useful. I wrote a few obscure tips/hacks about Thunderbird a little while ago, thinking something along the line of “none of the people who read this site even use Thunderbird… Why am I doing this, exactly?” But, it turns out that people who use Thunderbird also use Google (whoulda thunk?), and run across the same problems I do.
The short microphone review I wrote years ago still tends to be one of the most common searches, and there are a lot of people who want to know the value of betrayal money in biblical times vs. modern-day times. Caveat: My pastor and I have apparently come to different conclusions, based on a sermon from a couple of months ago, so I should probably recheck my sources, but I still think my conclusion is right, or at least highly plausible. But I’m not going to get into a theological debate over it.
But, notwithstanding those people who find this site useful, there are still a ton of searches for which I’m apparently authoritative, but either have nothing to say, or haven’t said it yet. I’ll fill in some of the gaps here:
While I’m no longer showing up as a top site for pictures of Panama City Beach, FL (finally!), people looking for the history of PDAs in general are probably somewhat disappointed to find my personal PDA history, even if it does follow the evolution of PDAs fairly well. It’s consistently in the top 10, if not the top 6.
“What is a Dell warranty?” I think it involves something about them fixing your computer when it breaks.
“What does deef stand for?” His wife, really good performances (though without getting into the whole ‘every performance deserves a standing ovation’ bit), working at the inserter and stamper, printing envelopes, and bringing mail from office to car and car to post office. He sits for programming, reading, driving the car, playing games, and dinner.
“Total of deef people in the US” Two: Deef and Deefwife. There are no little deefs.
“Fort Collins 9-digit ZIP Code” Umm, there are a lot. As of April, 26,685 of them, in fact. 80521-1000 is the first one, numerically. 80528-9700 is the highest in sequence, though there’s a company in Fort Collins that has all of 80553.
“addresses of pastors who want to give out things to people” I’m curious what inspired that.
“my hope is built on nothing less” Alas, I hope the lyrics they found here didn’t make it into their hymnal (copy and paste the text into the search bar on this site to find out why).
“deef killer” Not something that you’ll find out how to do on this site, let me tell you!
“potable sound system” I’m generally more interested in making my sound system small than making it fit for drinking, but kudos to the search engine that figured out that the searcher was probably thinking (if not typing) the same thing.
“adult” I have no idea how I managed to rank for that one. There can’t be any shortage of other sites vying for the word.
“hearing problems from running pitney bowes inserter” Good question. My impression is that it’s not loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage unless you’re running it for an extended period of time. It’s probably worth doing some measurements on, though. I’ll do that and post what I come up with.
“can unshielded speakers crash computer?” They’d have to have some pretty intense magnets to do that. Especially since, for most people, the speakers are next to the monitor, not the computer.
“things in a souvenir shop beginning with the letter d” It’s on the tip of my tongue! D… D… Oh, let me search for it. Google knows everything, right?
“with this stick and my highly evolved brain i shall make fire” What a great movie. The second one wasn’t as good, though I still enjoyed Scrat.
“is deef a word?” Of course! Proper names are perfectly valid words.
“communicate with deef people” E-Mail is preferred. As is English, though you can get by with a number of other languages if I’m allowed to use a translator.
“helpful phases for the newly wed couple” Other than the fact that I have no idea how this person got here, I might offer “<pat> <pat> it’ll be alright.” A serious answer is beyond the scope of this post.
“was saul a tax collector” Nope. That was Matthew/Levi.
“what are some things that happen only at midnight?” Date changes.
