Re: How they get here.

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Dude, we get like 10 hits for "Tina Fey scar" a day.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 12:55 PM
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what guys want from the gay guy

Grooming advice.

psychological meaning of dance with me

"Sex? Yes?"


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 12:57 PM
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I'm curious how many of the regulars here know how to do the pop n lock dance.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 12:57 PM
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Remember that J&B thread where we all discovered that we have trouble watching other people embarrass themselves? I don't remember hearing from the apostropher in that thread.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:01 PM
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Also, "i had no shoes til i saw someone with no feet" cracks me up. "Because I figured, hell, he doesn't need those shoes."


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:01 PM
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Ogged, I LOVE watching people embarrass themselves.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:02 PM
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why i think michael jordans in a genius

"Because he's been emotionally distant for the past few weeks, and last night I found another woman's bra in his laundry with calculus problems written all over it."


Posted by: sam k | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:03 PM
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Wasn't "men crush flat by platform shoes" the original title of LB's "Looking Out for the Little Guy"?


Posted by: jmcq | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:10 PM
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I like the seach strings that led AOL users to apostropher.com, such as:

www jake delhomme naked
what to do if your son is gay
hairy ass
huge rabbit
jim morrison prettiest penis contest
kenny easterday
no bananas in 20 years


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:11 PM
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jim morrison prettiest penis contest

How many did he have?


Posted by: Felix | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:12 PM
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This is dumb, but how do searches like that get them here? I can't imagine Unfogged being on the first ten pages of results for most of those.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:16 PM
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10: I assume only one, but the important fact is that he won.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:16 PM
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It sure was close.


Posted by: sam k | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:17 PM
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Wow, that's a little too entertaining. I found a guy who googled "piss pics" and "pee pics" like 40 times in a row, searched several times for "ny pizza in orlando," and misspelled "apartmentguide.com" at least 30 ways.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:18 PM
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Sorry, s/b "AOL searched." Sorry, GoogleTM.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:19 PM
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Nothing about Bill Withers in the eighteenth century?


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:26 PM
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Speaking of "Goggle gay sex," I just ran across someone very concerned about librul "Goggle bombs." It seems that they threaten the explosive capacity of George Bush himself.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:26 PM
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This is dumb, but how do searches like that get them here? I can't imagine Unfogged being on the first ten pages of results for most of those.

Well, I remember the Japanese Fear Factor little piglets post, for instance. But most of these keywords combinations probably don't find an exact phrase match. Blogs often show up for bizarre searches because of the breadth of subjects that can be discussed on a single indexed page. This goes doubly for Unfogged comment threads in particular, I'd imagine.


Posted by: sam k | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:26 PM
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16: It's true, IDP. Only ITNSII? can provide for all your funky 70's enlightenment needs.

Someone left a comment today that I was Googlewhacked. Still not sure what the terms were.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:28 PM
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That's the first I've heard that the AOL data dump was an accident. It was retroactively decided to be an accident, but the data were first released publically for research purposes.


Posted by: neil | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:28 PM
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17.--"Just ran across," pshaw. Admit it: you read AtlasShrugged every day.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:30 PM
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All of you who have a google account, I want you to sign in and look at your google search history, and tell me if you aren't ashamed.


Posted by: silvana | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:32 PM
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I only read it for the boobs.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:32 PM
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About 1/3 of my searches have site:unfogged.com or site:apostropher.com included in the strings.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:33 PM
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The list of search strings that led AOL users to Litt/e Green Footba//s is truly something to behold.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:35 PM
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The list of search strings that led somebody to bitchphd's site:
bitch
kids fucking
ph
sex bitch
uncomfortable around woman
unwritten rules of being a bitch
cheated in fucking another woman
dick to mouth
freaky sex com
heterosexual open marriage


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:41 PM
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22: Very interesting I'm clean, at least on this machine, but wiping caches and histories no longer good enough for someone who searched signed on, if your know their password.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:44 PM
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Looking through my google searches was an odd experience. I didn't previously remember why I was searching for Meredith Baxter-Birney, but the instant I saw it there, the recollection fell into the pit of my stomach. It's a weird way to look back at your thoughts.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:45 PM
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22: I thought I had a google account, but I guess I only have a gmail account. Anyway, I'm glad not to see my search historyt.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:49 PM
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Yeah, I'm pretty much always signed in, and use my computer for everything, since I don't, like, have a job. I was surprised how many of my searches were designed to find out information about people.

And yeah, seeing the search terms is like a journal or a record, I can remember almost every one vividly.


Posted by: silvana | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:50 PM
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Looking at my google search records reveals two very shameful things about me: I cannot spell in German, and I sometimes cheat on crossword puzzles.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:52 PM
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I didn't previously remember why I was searching for Meredith Baxter-Birney

Something about a mattress?


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:52 PM
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The search results leading to adamkotsko.com are "my father spanked me" and "the cost of discipleship."


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 1:54 PM
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You know what we should do? Everyone should find themselves a suitably interesting AOL user and write a novel--alright, short story--about them based on their searches. Mine'll be called "How to Kill a Mockingbird."


Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 2:29 PM
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I see the phrase "want to torture females california" led somebody to two sites: www.litt/egreenfootballs.com, and www.counterpunch.org.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 3:47 PM
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Wasn't something almost exactly like this posted here at unfogged a long, long time ago? May not have been aol, but it was funny search strings that led people to unfogged. Someone please tell me I'm not going insane.


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 5:15 PM
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More than once, Brock.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 5:48 PM
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In google's world, you don't search the web, the web searches you.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 7:17 PM
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26: Well, yeah. But aren't you impressed that of all the bitches on the internet, I'm the 2nd or 3rd most popular (depending on that day's results)?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 8:24 PM
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Oh, god, that is some depressing shit.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 8:37 PM
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Are you seriously telling me "cock jokes" wasn't one of the search terms? You people have a lot of work to do.


Posted by: Doctor Slack | Link to this comment | 08-17-06 10:40 PM
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But what searches led people to waste?

Tom of Zunta fame has a link up to a Something Awful article on the AOL search strings; I commend it to all.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-18-06 5:11 AM
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Doc, when it comes to cock jokes, everyone already knows where to go, so they don't need to search.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-18-06 5:12 AM
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Tom of Zunta fame has a link up to a Something Awful article

Not following the link in the post, I see.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-18-06 5:47 AM
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I moused over and saw that it goes to apostropher.com, and assumed it would be worthless tripe.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-18-06 5:55 AM
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assumed it would be worthless tripe.

Fair enough.

But what searches led people to waste?

Only one string: copulation.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-18-06 5:58 AM
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I am happy to report the only string that led searchers to READIN.com was "The Hamlet by William Faulkner" -- my The Hamlet page is probably the one I had the most fun writing since I started the damn site.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 08-18-06 6:02 AM
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From March to June this year, just one search by one user led to waste blog. (You'll find it, naturally, amid the searches for pigs, intercourse, and horse helmets.)


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 08-18-06 6:08 AM
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That'll teach me to value-add.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 08-18-06 6:12 AM
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Holy crap, lamb nipples.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 08-18-06 6:13 AM
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Could you, like, not stare at them?!

Sheesh


Posted by: Lamb | Link to this comment | 08-18-06 1:29 PM
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