Peoples' True Interests

If I were Google's searchmaster, I'd be reading all day what people enter into the search field. In fact, I'd be surprised if the Googlarians didn't store every single search item and use it for the better of humanity. Or their company's own stock price. Either way, I sometimes get a tiny glimpse of what must be billions of search terms every day, by looking at the referring URL of the anonymous surfer eventually hitting any of my web pages. And while it can be ego-boosting if I find people actually entering my own name, the more interesting searches are when some random combination of words on any given page of this blog turns into a hit for someone looking for the answer. More recently, I noticed the following interesting search words:

• how do I become a spammer
  
• how big should a big screen tv be?
  
• IT vendor taglines
  
• corporate slogans
  
• 14 ways to pronounce "ough"
  
• anita blond calendar 2005
  
• photographic memory
  
• photo business card
  
• the need for manufacturers silly disclaimers
  
• blood at fertile time
  
• climbing eiger
  

This calls for an experiment. Hey, it could even be called research. I will create a content-free posting that includes nothing but vendor names, buzzwords, potential keywords and tags. And then I'll just wait, because Google and Sitemeter do the rest. I will report results.