DrunkenBlog

My tivo thinks I'm gay...

I really have to start posting more, and about a broader range of subjects, simply because I'm so foul mouthed and acerbic in my rhetoric when I rant that apparently google is sending some real oddities my way. I keep meaning to finish up some more of my tutorials, but things on this site are generally the 1st to hit the back burner...

I'm assuming google has done another reindex, as towards the end of last week and on I've started to get some really, really weird emails. You know, the type that are odd enough you're sure you've somehow gotten CC'd by mistake. But nope, these people were sending them to me, they were just talking and asking about some really weird things.

In trying to track down what was going on, I decided I better grep the logs. I suck with regular expressions, but enough that I can do some grep+filtering to get an idea... although getting better with awk & regular expressions in general is on my todo list.

It wasn't too hard to start finding where some of the weirdness was coming from, and it's pretty much all google:

• Apparently this site comes up as the second link when you search for "asshat festival" due to this rant. Really now people, why someone would be searching for that is beyond me...
• Apparently when you search for 'asshat', my trackback ping on Pierre Igot's 'discussion' with Microsofts' Rick Schaut over Mac Office comes up on the first page. Welp, it's nice to be at the forefront of vernacular trendsetting I suppose...
• Apparently, now when you search for "richard gere" and "hamsters" drunken batman shows up on the first page. I wish I was kidding. That's just lovely, thanks google.
• Apparently, when you search for "ass movie", or "ass+movie" or even weirder derivatives, drunkenblog was coming up on the second page of links due to this post. That's just beautiful. When I checked it today, it was only coming up on the 5th page... thanks, google, you've put me in some lovely company there.

I'm 99% sure most of the weird emails are coming from the last two, which is well, odder than I'm able to comprehend past midnight. The 1% of doubt is just there because I went a little slash & burn on some of the weird comments & emails I was getting... there were a lot for awhile. It's kinda like that old joke where you give the thumbs up to a show on your tivo, and it gets a really warped sense of the programming it thinks you'd enjoy.

Interestingly enough while looking at the logs I saw a lot of people coming in by searching for "osx" and "terminal", so a quick check shows this site comes up towards the top of the first page, but doesn't show up at all when searching for "os x" and "terminal". Well ok, it's not that interesting except as an example of just how wildly your searches can vary with one space missing.... and, well, that I seriously need to do the ones for MacOS 10.3, as, well, we're not that far from MacOS 10.4...

The rest of the people seemed to be annoyed about getting to my site from yahoo while searching on a virus they've become infected with, and being annoyed that I hadn't linked to something to disinfect them when I have in the past. Sorry peeps, I don't use windows as my primary platform, so it's just not a focus.

 Posted by drunkenbatman
    March 30, 2004, at 01:28 AM