Black and Yellow
A number of people seem to be finding my blog after doing searches on MSN for "Black and Yellow."
On one hand, this is great. I am happy to generate traffic however I can. On the other hand, what the hell are people thinking? What do you possibly hope to find by searching for two colors? If you search for extremely broad categories, you're going to get meaningless results.
Yes, I realize I just basically implied that my site is meaningless. I doubt too many people would disagree.
Anyway, the other day in class, my professor said, "No one goes to Google and searches for 'stress' or 'laptops.' It would be a pointless search."
However, given what we're seeing here, I'm inclined to believe that if Google were to ever open their search logs to the public (fat chance -- it would harm their quest toward global domination), we'd probably see a lot of searches that broad.
On one hand, this is great. I am happy to generate traffic however I can. On the other hand, what the hell are people thinking? What do you possibly hope to find by searching for two colors? If you search for extremely broad categories, you're going to get meaningless results.
Yes, I realize I just basically implied that my site is meaningless. I doubt too many people would disagree.
Anyway, the other day in class, my professor said, "No one goes to Google and searches for 'stress' or 'laptops.' It would be a pointless search."
However, given what we're seeing here, I'm inclined to believe that if Google were to ever open their search logs to the public (fat chance -- it would harm their quest toward global domination), we'd probably see a lot of searches that broad.
posted by N at 11:31 PM
2 Comments:
You know, it's interesting that you should mention that. I had a chance to visit Google, and on entering the building, you can see a live list of current searches. Some of it is really random and broad. A lot of it wasn't even in English. They must have censored out all the porn searches because everything was surprisingly clean.
It was fascinating to watch the endless list. I wish I could see it again. Incidentally, my boyfriend's sister now works there. Maybe she can get me a tshirt...Oh the perks.
going in to visit Google is like going to visit the Death Star. you may have good purposes for going there, but who knows if you'll come out as the same person.
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