Dom Davis (The Blog)

One of the doohickies I have set up on this blog gives me the top search results used to find it. I’m used to seeing odd, funny, inane and downright weird stuff in there, especially with the old blog.

The top 3 items in the list (we buy any car lyrics; nxea; and spread betting 10p per point) are all easily explained.

Number 4 is “jif lemon” “kidney stones”. Given the way Google works the quotes mean the searcher was looking for two exact phrases. Given my love of pancakes in general and Jif Lemon day in particular added to my predilection to hatch kidney stones you can see why they ended up here. Makes you wonder what they were looking for, perhaps trying to find out if Jif Lemon causes kidney stones (unlikely to be the sole cause), maybe Jif Lemon tastes nice with kidney stones. Who knows.

Which brings us to item 5: “my foot” “x-ray” “nail polish” “blog”. remembering how we specify phrase matches with Google this means our visitor was looking for 4, fairly specific terms and wound up on my blog. Needless to say, I was intrigued. My ramblings are many and varied but I’m not sure that little lot has come up an any one post (prior to today). Of course, I had to Google it and, what do you know, first result . Clicking on the result takes you to the life at home category list which helps explain how I managed to hit all the search terms. Still, just goes to show that with Google, as with so many things in life: random shit in, random shit out