What *is* it with search engines?

Posted by Scott Laird Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:04:43 GMT

In the continuing saga of search engine weirdness, I’m now up to 550 search engine hits from people looking for terms including the word “hilton”. Most of these are from MSN. This doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in their ability to produce relevant pages for simple searches.

On the other hand, Google isn’t a whole lot better anymore. Apparently, I’m number 8 when searching for ”work is hell”. I’d love to know what I’m doing right.

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Note to self, never mention Paris Hilton in blog again

Posted by Scott Laird Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:54:20 GMT

It’s been a weird day, traffic-wise: MSN has decided that my simple mention of Paris Hilton referrer spam is good enough to make me their search engine love me–I’m number 18 on their list of sites when searching for “Paris Hilton Video.” I’ve had at least 55 different users today arrive from MSN’s search engine.

Update: Gack, Google’s at it now, too. I just got a hit from “paris hilton jpegs.” Except this one was from someone with too much time on their hands–I’m apparently on the 44th page of listings on Google.

Update 2: I’m now up to number 9 on MSN’s site. I’ll probably break 150 paris hilton hits today. It’s not a lot of traffic, but it’s just so bizarre that they’ve decided to send it my way.

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